"C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new"

-- Dennis Ritchie

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“My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.”
“Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.”
“You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.”
“A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.”

Source : Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, Frank Miller (2000). “Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road”, Dark Horse
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
“Even the most complex problem is resolved in the end. Because if there's a question, there also is an answer.”
“Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2013
“I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.”

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