"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."

-- Ken Thompson

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“The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.”
“This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.”
“Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.”

Source : "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.
“I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.”
“Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!!”

Source : David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books
“I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.”
“The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”

Source : Robert Stawell Ball (2010). “Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens”, p.227, Cambridge University Press
“Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).”

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