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Ken Thompson Quotes

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Simple Think Clean Write Open

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

Business Sports Great Money Football

People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Myself Service Man Purpose People

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

Growth World View Country Economy

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

Life Decisions You Important Decide

Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.

Change World Cold Story You Look

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

Sea Mountain Waves Foundation Deep

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

Dance Sometimes Fleeting Emotional

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

Me Mom Young Tennis She Ireland

You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!

Money People Crazy Rock And Roll You

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.

Truth Government Tea Influence Party

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.

Great Butterfly People Voice Think

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

World Will Belief Capital Just Save

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