Ken Thompson Quotes
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: 'I'd spell creat with an e.'
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
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I don't need to publish to make a living.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
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My family is more important than my party.
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I see Earth! It is so beautiful!
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
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Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.
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A periodic tune-up of our personal priorities and a regular safety inspection of the direction and desired destination of our lives help insure us against major temporal, emotional, and spiritual breakdowns.
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Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: 'I'd spell creat with an e.'
