Ken Thompson
Related COREY TAYLOR SHELBY FOOTE 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON AESOP DAVID MELLOR People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." MICHAEL CHABON No, not at all, ... I just didn't feel good after them, and just sat out some games. I'm not worried... DAN MORGAN BILL NYE CARRIE PRESTON RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if... JOHN CLEESE ANDREW WEIL LYNDA HERNANDEZ FREDERICK DOUGLAS KEANU REEVES EILEEN CADDY If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat... TIFFANY GARLAND RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON MARY EVANS I think a lot of the athletes here will walk by and laugh at us, but that just makes me want them to... ASHLEE ROTH You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of th... ELIZABETH ASTON RAINBOW ROWELL Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Well, I certainly think it makes more sense than the music deal she announced to release CD's with S... GARY MCDANIEL Well, I certainly think it makes more sense than the music deal she announced to release CD's with S... GARY MCDANIEL JOHN BURDETT I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. ... BROOKE BURNS T. BOONE PICKENS KATE MCKINNON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... GEORGE A. ROMERO The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. JUDI DENCH Last year I think it was tough on the girls and me because I was a first year coach. The first time ... ERIC STEEGE When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed... BRENT M. JONES It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to ... MARC ABRAHAMS So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto th... JULIA REED Any expedition visiting in the dry season would probably discover many more butterflies. I suspect t... BRUCE BEEHLER It's very misleading. It makes people think if I eat this cereal all the time, I won't have problems... JULIE RUSSELL Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a pers... SHELENA SHORTS KURT VONNEGUT JR. Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end. JUDY GREER KURT COBAIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN EDGAR ALLAN POE The system is so awash in money that I don't think there's any danger that any side will be going in... CHARLES COOK I don't have much time left here, so I think knowing that I only have a couple months left makes thi... LIZ VRABEL Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at ... MARGO WOOTAN NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I have to give the credit to Mr. Volpe at the announcer?s table, he makes me laugh, gives me nicknam... BEN SCHWARTZ Don't worry about which fiber you should eat. Just eat more of all of them. CHERYL ROCK Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in ... IRA GLASS PETER L. BERGER All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-withou... BROCK CLARKE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES DEMETRI MARTIN STEPHANIE BEACHAM Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans... GARY F EVANS... Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. DENNIS RITCHIE I'm not getting emotionally involved any more. It makes me too angry. SHEILA CORONEL Nothing makes my day more than when someone comes up to me and says I bring them joy. That's why I d... JUDY TENUTA THOMAS HARRIS I feel much better this year, more energetic. My teammates say I'm much more social now. Instead of ... LATOYA PRINGLE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF FRANZ KAFKA I didn't anticipate having that much difficulty running it. They put more guys in the box (at the li... TOMMY BOWDEN Those who worry stumble long The Way.ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc... LILLIAN HELLMAN I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't t... BROOKE SMITH I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. ... NAWAL EL SAADAWI JOHN HAWKES EDITH SITWELL The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the mor... KEN POIROT It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the peop... JERRY B. JENKINS I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... a... OREN PELI Education, The less you think about it, the more it makes sense. ALFANSO DELAGHETTO I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at schoo... MATHEW BAYNTON GEORGE BUSH JURGEN KLOPP JUDY GARLAND I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the gover... STEVEN SCHIER ZADIE SMITH All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more. LOUIE ANDERSON PAT NIXON BARBRA STREISAND LISA KLEYPAS All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away s... CASEY WASSERMAN EDDIE VEDDER NEIL GAIMAN I close my eyes and think about the only thing that makes life worth the trials: Emma Kingsley, her ... CRISTIN HARBER It's kind of frustrating at this point. The fact that I don't know my results is not that important.... JARED GOLDSCHEN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think... PAUL GIAMATTI What this job really does ? more than make you think about death ? it makes you think about life. ALAN SUNDQUIST I don?t think there are any coverage concerns. Everything looks to be relatively covered in this are... JEREMY PATE I think I've played all of them pretty well. It gives me a lot more confidence knowing that I can pl... ERIC MEISTER MARGARET MITCHELL
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When in doubt, use brute force. KEN THOMPSON I am a very bottom-up thinker. KEN THOMPSON In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. KEN THOMPSON I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. KEN THOMPSON The place we moved from is kind of an older location downtown. KEN THOMPSON I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write... KEN THOMPSON Tom is one of the most astute financial professionals I have ever known. We are incredibly fortunate... KEN THOMPSON It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. KEN THOMPSON This increase is consistent with our stated guideline for dividend payout. KEN THOMPSON UBS, City National Bank and First-Citizens are all unique banking franchises with different market s... KEN THOMPSON We're establishing these funds because we know we need to look to the future -- to what will help th... KEN THOMPSON The bottom line for us is we are experiencing excellent revenue growth..., ... We have good expectat... KEN THOMPSON This is an excellent partnership that gives First Union a nationwide securities business, ... This t... KEN THOMPSON This is a policy I strongly recommend. If your employer covers 50 percent to 60 percent for it, pay ... KEN THOMPSON We're especially pleased with solid fee income growth across the board, ... We see no signs of credi... KEN THOMPSON The only way we can overcome the tragedy of an immense disaster like this one is by pulling together... KEN THOMPSON Today's announcement reflects our board's confidence in Wachovia's performance and prospects for con... KEN THOMPSON Most gardeners don't need me telling them that it's good to have year-round interest. You want a gar... KEN THOMPSON I look for that number to be 50 by the end of the year. That's the key to our business ... our emplo... KEN THOMPSON He had a passion since he was a little kid to fly. KEN THOMPSON Lloyd will certainly be missed by all of our board members. He has been a trusted and valued member ... KEN THOMPSON You can train yourself to notice this kind of wildlife. Next time you have some weeding or a bit of ... KEN THOMPSON Nature conservation can seem so remote. But in your own garden you can make a difference and you can... KEN THOMPSON We have a binding legal agreement with Wachovia that we intend to vigorously pursue to consummation,... KEN THOMPSON Today's outcome is a tremendous victory and a major milestone within the merger process, ... It is c... KEN THOMPSON We're proud of our record fourth-quarter results and fourth consecutive year of double-digit earning... KEN THOMPSON On behalf of Wachovia Corporation, I apologize to all Americans, and especially to African-Americans... KEN THOMPSON I am confident that Tom's direction and guidance will ensure strategic continuity and sustained fina... KEN THOMPSON But if you really want to know how to live on one income, you might have to move back with your pare... KEN THOMPSON We know that we cannot change the past, and we can't make up for the wrongs of slavery. But we can l... KEN THOMPSON By doing that in early fall, it gives the seed a chance to germinate and start maturing before the w... KEN THOMPSON I just know it has to be paid for, and it has to be paid for through productivity and the creation o... KEN THOMPSON [But not all online escrow sites agree.] Their laws aren't a good fit for escrow companies outside o... KEN THOMPSON That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. KEN THOMPSON On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. KEN THOMPSON No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. KEN THOMPSON In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. KEN THOMPSON The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. KEN THOMPSON It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense f... KEN SALAZAR I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than ... KEN VENTURI 'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant... KEN GOLDBERG My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find ... KEN BRUEN The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important. KEN STARR KEN HENSLEY KEN HENSLEY KEN BURNS KEN KESEY The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists. KEN BRUEN What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is... KEN LEVINE People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-poi... KEN SALAZAR We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio li... KEN CURTIS It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts. KEN JENNINGS KEN DODD KEN HENSLEY There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired. KEN LOEFFLER KEN LIU The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing spe... KEN JENNINGS I gave up many times but I never quit. KEN POIROT KEN LIU KEN KESEY Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed. THOMAS KEN KEN KESEY Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key. KEN SCHOLES KEN GILBERT KEN BLANCHARD KEN MASON KEN LIVINGSTONE KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD KEN KESEY KEN KEYS KEN BLANCHARD The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, t... KEN KONECKI KEN ADELMAN KEN BLANCHARD KEN HUDGINS KEN DODD KEN CAREY KEN BURNS KEN CAREY What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home. KEN HAMMOND Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball. KEN HARRELSON KEN KESEY There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. KEN OLSEN Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worryin... KEN ROCKWELL Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. KEN HAKUTA KEN BURNS KEN KESEY KEN HAM If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the fa... KEN AULETTA If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is ... KEN MEHLMAN KEN LIU KEN ROBINSON KEN HAM KEN FOLLETT KEN ROBINSON KEN JEONG KEN ROBINSON The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. KEN VENTURI KEN LIVINGSTONE A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages. KEN CUCCINELLI KEN KESEY I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issue... KEN MEHLMAN KEN BLANCHARD KEN KESEY KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD KEN BLANCHARD I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. KEN WILBER KEN KESEY KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN BUCK KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN ROBINSON KEN HAM KEN LIVINGSTONE KEN LIU KEN LIVINGSTONE KEN HAM Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there... KEN DENMEAD It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more ob... KEN CUCCINELLI Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old... KEN BRUEN KEN LIU One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te... KEN ADAM KEN HAM KEN LIVINGSTONE KEN HAM KEN KESEY KEN BURNS The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warre... KEN MACLEOD I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. KEN JENNINGS KEN ROBINSON To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achi... KEN ADAM KEN LIU KEN LIU KEN LIVINGSTONE I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were com... KEN STARR KEN LIVINGSTONE KEN BURNS KEN HAM KEN HAM KEN HAM KEN HAM KEN BURNS KEN BURNS KEN BURNS KEN BUCK KEN KESEY Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United State... KEN SALAZAR KEN KESEY Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. KEN AULETTA I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever ... KEN ADAM KEN LIU Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye... THOMAS KEN There's some bells you can't unring. KEN CUCCINELLI KEN KESEY Sometimes isolation can be shared. KEN GRIMWOOD KEN KESEY There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. KEN OLSEN The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. KEN OLSEN KEN LIVINGSTONE The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, t... KEN KONECKI KEN BURNS Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty. KEN POIROT The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines fo... KEN CALVERT Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effec... KEN CUCCINELLI The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happen... KEN CALVERT KEN JEONG success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice KEN POIROT KEN HAM KEN HAM When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and ... KEN STARR The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record co... KEN AULETTA Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. KEN HILL To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it. KEN KEYES To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. KEN KEYES I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and
now, unless I am letting my con... KEN KEYES Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. KEN IVERSON
The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable peo... 
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thin... 
The Boy and the Nettles
A boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Altho... 
The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complain... 
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. 
The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpabl... 
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal ... 
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all ... 
Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. 
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. 
I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. 
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... 
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... 
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. 
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... 
I have never been contained except I made the prison. 
I don’t think I’m any good at this. Boy–girl. Person–person. I don’t trust anybody. Not an... 
In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the... 
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. 
Nothing makes me laugh more than farting. 
I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it. 
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, ... 
They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. 
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. 
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more... 
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent for... 
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a... 
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I w... 
I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe partie... 
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... 
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. 
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand ... 
All day long you sit and sew,
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it... 
Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him.... 
From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to e... 
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no... 
I think it brings them an awareness. To them, it's just on the news. But when they start hearing abo... 
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. 
Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cag... 
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... 
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. 
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it. 
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and... 
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l... 
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered someth... 
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims o... 
Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds ... 
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. 
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. 
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. 
I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas. 
What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Str... 
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative co... 
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you mee... 
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. 
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intentio... 
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. 
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your ... 
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ... 
You do not have enough data to assign value to any action
in the book Starseed Transmissions. 
If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegor... 
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results... 
Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were ... 
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good ... 
Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with li... 
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were... 
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where every... 
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other is... 
Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual gr... 
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the cen... 
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain... 
The civil service are risk averse. 
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, orga... 
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment. 
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during th... 