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.'

Ken Thompson

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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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• I can do a gig without an instrument.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • I Can
  • Without
  • Instrument

• Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Feel Good

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Direction
  • Tool

• 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.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Live
  • Today
  • Best

• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Logic
  • Fact
  • Hunger

• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fingers
  • DNA
  • Chemical

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Country
  • Want
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Time
  • Question
  • Slavery

• So high, so low, so many things to know.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • High

• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • World
  • Change
  • Brain

• Mind your till, and till your mind.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Mind

• I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • Dad

• In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Country
  • America

• 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.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Children
  • School
  • Laughter

• We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

  

  John Fleming
  • Power

• I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Star
  • Galaxy

• Then came a rather surreal exchange about Joy Division T-shirts, with us proudly proclaiming we did not sell merchandise because we didn’t believe in self-promotion of any kind, preferring to let the music speak for itself. ‘Rubbish,’ boomed Scotty. ‘How come wherever I go I see Joy Division and New Order T-shirts, worn and for sale, eh?’ Now, we had no idea where he was going to see these things, but we were all speechless anyway. He continued, ‘I don’t believe you, and will be fining you accordingly.’ So we would get fined £10,000 for not doing our own T-shirts.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Music
  • Proclaiming
  • Self-promotion

• The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

  

  Carl G. Fisher
  • America
  • Science
  • Materials

• I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Guy
  • City

• '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.'

  

  Ken Thompson