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

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Idea, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Idea, Fanaticism

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Idea, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer

Idea, Fantasy, Treatment

"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."

Luc Ferrari, French Composer

Idea, Character

"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."

Neil Tennant, English Musician

Idea, Television, Want, Writing

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

Richard P. Feynman, American Physicist

Idea, Direction, Help, Information

"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."

Edgard Varese, American Composer

Idea, Direction, Sound

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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."

"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."

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"There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center."

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."

"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."

"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."

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

"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."