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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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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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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Tuesday nights are sushi nights, so we go out then.
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Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
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I honestly think that Donald Trump's only adviser is his doorman.
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The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
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I'm not real happy that we are here this late in the session, ... But we are not going to be pushed out of town with a bad deal.
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I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.
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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.'
