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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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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."
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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."
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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
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"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."
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"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."
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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
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"I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler."
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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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