Ken Thompson Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
