Ken Thompson Quotes

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrant death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

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• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Responsibility
  • Creativity

• When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Wonder
  • Start
  • Breakfast

• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Shinier

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• If we're talking about guys who set the tone, you've got to go way back. But if we're talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Kind
  • Door
  • Talking

• Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Change
  • Sure
  • One Thing

• I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Done
  • Football

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Book
  • House

• There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Community
  • Church
  • Morning

• I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Age
  • Care
  • Body

• I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrant death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

  

  Ken Thompson
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