Ken Thompson Quotes
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Power to the peaceful.
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Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
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I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
