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"I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate."
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"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
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"Through all life changes , God is in control."
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"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."
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"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."
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"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"
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"Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it."
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"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."
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"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."
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"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."
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"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."
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"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."
Being
"A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova."
Time
"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."
Will
"Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role."
Past
"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
Career
"I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time."
Time
"The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues."
Work
"C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group."
Success
"I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things."
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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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