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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The crowds may miss the outbursts a bit. Sometimes it can be amusing, but other times, when it gets profane, there's no need for it.
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You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
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'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.
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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.'
