"When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted."

-- Emily Mann

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“Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”

Source : "Rob Pike Responds". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. October 18, 2004.
“Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.”
“It's nice to have things to look forward to.”
“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”
“Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.”
“In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.”
“I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.”
“Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.”

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