Brian Kernighan Quotes

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Brian Kernighan

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ReputationThinkLearnWayDifficult

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.

Joe Frazier

ManYouGoTrueMeanOut

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Joan Didion

SwimmingPoolNeverAlwaysWanted

I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.

Jesse Plemons

SomeoneLookAdmirationLikeChris

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn't afraid of that. And I wasn't worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it's not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.

Tom Landry

PeopleMeEgoEnjoyYouDumb

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

Michelle Malkin

ListeningControlWake UpEnoughYou

Security has come from being successful.

Minnie Driver

SecuritySuccessfulBeingCome

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Louise Brooks

PeopleGiftYouKnifeWillBore

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Sharon Salzberg

WorkWisdomConnectionOthers

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

Noam Chomsky

I AmSearchSomeoneYouWillGoogle

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Rhianna Pratchett

MeThinkInterestingAlwaysGone

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

FunRedNervousGetInterviews

I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.

Kevin Mitnick

PeopleWorldThinkSuicideTerrorism

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