Ken Thompson Quotes

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Ken Thompson

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PowerDataLotGeneratingExecuting

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

John Garamendi

CrimeFairEveryoneTrialFair Trial

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats

GreatMeSpeakYouDifferenceTask

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

John James Audubon

BookEnoughLittleSeenBooksDozen

The attorney doesn't decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.

Michael Avenatti

DecideClientAttorneyUltimately

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.

Michael Dirda

TruthGreatWallsSpacePortrait

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Shimon Peres

TurnGunsUsBulletsBallots

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

Tori Amos

GirlTimeFeetMouthDirtyFirst

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.

Rush Limbaugh

TeaLosePartyNewRepublicanUp

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicChildrenGreatHappyYouPlay

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

Jonny Greenwood

LoveTimeArtQualityThinkDoing

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

Djuna Barnes

MomentWalkMenMindHairFeet

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

Derek Jeter

YouDownWantNeverOverOut

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