"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

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Source : "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

Ken Thompson

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Simple Quotes

“[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.”
“The power of giving is instantaneous, continuous and eternal.”

Source : Azim Jamal (2012). “Business, Balance & Beyond”, p.129, Jaico Publishing House
“Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.”

Source : Calvin Miller (2010). “Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir”, p.227, Thomas Nelson Inc
“It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.”
“India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change”
“I've always been more of the athlete in my family, but Bella [Hadid] is just good at - when she needs buckle down for like two weeks and be in [the gym] every day, she's really good at that.”
“In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.”
“If you don't look good, we don't look good.”

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