Brian Kernighan Quotes

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Brian Kernighan

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Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

Andrew Lau

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We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

Mavis Staples

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Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

Trisha Goddard

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I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Mary Oliver

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I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who's ringing at this time?' We just wouldn't answer the phone.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Julia Gillard

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I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

Cornelia Funke

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You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe.

Colin Hanks

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Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

Bria Skonberg

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If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

Bobby Flay

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'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Bruce Feiler

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