Ken Thompson Quotes

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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• I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Home

• People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Ass

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • World
  • Family
  • Money

• In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • People
  • Like
  • Psychology

• Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sacrifice

• ...words were said that could not be put right again...

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Words

• Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Time

• I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Up
  • Live

• There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Good
  • Movie

• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Age

• There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• The U.S. military cannot fight Iraq's war for them.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • War
  • Military

• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Control

• Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

  

  John Maeda
  • Important
  • Daily

• The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world.

  

  Anibal Acevedo Vila
  • World
  • War
  • Political

• Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Men
  • Real
  • Giving

• One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

  

  Ken Thompson