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Ken Thompson Quotes

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1943

Topics

Life Three Shells Two Own Started

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

Determination Ignorance New Things

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

Day I Am I Can Page Out Get

Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.

Nineties Pretty Away Being Videos

If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.

Political Ambassador He Should

Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like.

Day Influence Feel Look Born Afraid

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

People Writing Place Different People

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

Live Deep Strong You Say Group

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Misty May-Treanor

Together Broken Gold Win Winning

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Me Lawyer Process Values Fairness

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

Bride Price Marriages Most Were

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

Art Experience Baby Creating Kind

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

Grow Grow Up Up Your Sons Cowboys

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