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Brian Kernighan Quotes

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Brian Kernighan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 1, 1942

Topics

Student Enjoyed Princeton Really

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

Step Me Forward Better Doing You

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Eyes Experience Me India Way First

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Joely Richardson

Family Myself Thinking Early Career

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Name Band Always Big Got Wanted

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

Power Me Ghost Surprised Stories

You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.

Stephen Graham Jones

Money People Fake You House Want

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Power Living Dead More Company Keep

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Time Presence Something Understood

In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.

Music Time Mindset Working Like Use

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Love Wife Spiritual I Am Enjoy Born

We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.

Power Moral Want Become Economy

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

Girl Thankful Shoes Experience Learn

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