Ken Thompson quote: "Tom is one of the most astute financial professionals I have ever known. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Tom's talents assume the responsibilities of CFO for Wachovia."

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

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
KEN THOMPSON

The more I think about the nettle argument, the more it makes me laugh. This country's awash with ne...
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

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
KEN HENSLEY

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and...
KEN HENSLEY

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l...
KEN BURNS

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered someth...
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

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims o...
KEN DODD

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play ...
KEN HENSLEY

There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
KEN LOEFFLER

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds ...
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

Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I ha...
KEN LIU

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
KEN KESEY

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.
THOMAS KEN

"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!...
KEN KESEY

Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.
KEN SCHOLES

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
KEN BLANCHARD

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
KEN MASON

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Str...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I never use notes, they interfere with me.
KEN BLANCHARD

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative co...
KEN BLANCHARD

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you a...
KEN BLANCHARD

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
KEN BLANCHARD

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery in...
KEN KESEY

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you mee...
KEN KEYS

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
KEN BLANCHARD

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, t...
KEN KONECKI

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
KEN ADELMAN

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intentio...
KEN BLANCHARD

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
KEN HUDGINS

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minut...
KEN DODD

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your ...
KEN CAREY

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS

You do not have enough data to assign value to any action in the book Starseed Transmissions.
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

Take what you can use and let the rest go by
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

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
KEN KESEY

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegor...
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

What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I...
KEN LIU

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results...
KEN ROBINSON

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were ...
KEN HAM

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good ...
KEN FOLLETT

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...
KEN ROBINSON

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with li...
KEN JEONG

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...
KEN ROBINSON

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
KEN VENTURI

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.
KEN CUCCINELLI

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
KEN KESEY

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issue...
KEN MEHLMAN

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
KEN BLANCHARD

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
KEN KESEY

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessi...
KEN BLANCHARD

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no l...
KEN BLANCHARD

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in rel...
KEN BLANCHARD

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, n...
KEN BLANCHARD

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
KEN BLANCHARD

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
KEN WILBER

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
KEN KESEY

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were...
KEN ROBINSON

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where every...
KEN ROBINSON

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other is...
KEN BUCK

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity...
KEN ROBINSON

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions...
KEN ROBINSON

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in school...
KEN ROBINSON

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that cre...
KEN ROBINSON

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
KEN ROBINSON

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much mo...
KEN ROBINSON

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking fo...
KEN ROBINSON

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, i...
KEN ROBINSON

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species ...
KEN ROBINSON

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, w...
KEN ROBINSON

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you'...
KEN ROBINSON

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in ...
KEN ROBINSON

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central c...
KEN ROBINSON

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply sca...
KEN ROBINSON

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingnes...
KEN ROBINSON

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
KEN ROBINSON

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not ra...
KEN ROBINSON

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curios...
KEN ROBINSON

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't fee...
KEN ROBINSON

Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual gr...
KEN HAM

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, an...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I ...
KEN LIU

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have conscio...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
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

The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the cen...
KEN LIU

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te...
KEN ADAM

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.
KEN HAM

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are ...
KEN HAM

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain...
KEN KESEY

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier...
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

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't b...
KEN ROBINSON

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achi...
KEN ADAM

Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast ...
KEN LIU

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take t...
KEN LIU

The civil service are risk averse.
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

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, orga...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century m...
KEN BURNS

No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be v...
KEN HAM

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.
KEN HAM

While the Ark Encounter will be able to accommodate 16,000 guests per day, our consultant's rese...
KEN HAM

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation...
KEN HAM

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episo...
KEN BURNS

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can chal...
KEN BURNS

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their e...
KEN BURNS

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
KEN BUCK

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
KEN KESEY

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United State...
KEN SALAZAR

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
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

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It ...
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

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by ...
KEN KESEY

Sometimes isolation can be shared.
KEN GRIMWOOD

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.
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

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, t...
KEN KONECKI

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
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

When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during th...
KEN JEONG

success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice
KEN POIROT

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in A...
KEN HAM

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop th...
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

Tom is one of the most astute financial professionals I have ever known. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Tom's talents assume the responsibilities of CFO for Wachovia.

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Tom is one of the most astute financial professionals I have ever known. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Tom's talents assume the responsibilities of CFO for Wachovia.

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