Ken Thompson Quotes

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Ken Thompson

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After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

Joe Sakic

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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

Joe Shuster

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Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

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I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can't seem to believe there's really a baby there. It's such a miracle.

Mary Beth Whitehead

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A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

Jorja Smith

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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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The street I lived on for the first handful of years of my life was lined with modest, lower-middle-class houses with small front yards and cracked driveways - your typical North Jersey neighborhood, with all the odd hidden darkness that that implies.

Chris Gethard

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I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Ariana Grande

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Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Armstrong Williams

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