"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."

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Source : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

Dennis Ritchie

#Technology Quotes #Infrastructure Quotes

“Belgarath turned back to Senji. â€œAll right,â€ he said. â€œThe Sardion came to Zamad. How?â€ â€œItâ€™s said to have fallen out of the sky.â€ â€œThey always do,â€ Beldin said. â€œSomeday Iâ€™d like to see something rise up out of the earth â€“just for the sake of variety.”
“My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, 'You did it! You showed up! Letâ€™s lie down.' We all lie down and sheâ€™s like, 'How is everybody feeling?' Weâ€™re like, 'Great!' And the teacherâ€™s like, 'Great!' Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early.”
“If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.”
“In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.”
“Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.”
“Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.”
“I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.”
“My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.”

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