Ken Thompson Quotes
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.
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It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.
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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
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John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.
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Make happiness a daily habit!
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
