Ken Thompson Quotes
'I've seen visual editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing.'
Quotes to Explore
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I can do a gig without an instrument.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
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I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
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So high, so low, so many things to know.
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
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Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
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I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.
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Be held truthful that your lies may count.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.
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'I've seen visual editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing.'
