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
-
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I can do a gig without an instrument.
-
Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
-
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
-
DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
-
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.
-
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.
-
So high, so low, so many things to know.
-
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
-
Mind your till, and till your mind.
-
They’d lived all their life on Earth; they knew nothing but the Earth. They had never really touched an alien concept, and that was all this concept was. It was not really as slimy as it seemed. It was only alien. There were a lot of alien things that could make one’s hair stand up on end while in their proper alien context they were fairly ordinary.
-
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
-
I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.
-
Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.
-
To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.
-
There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!
-
Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
-
'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.'
