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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
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"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
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"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
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"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."
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"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."
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"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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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."
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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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"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
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"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."
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"Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role."
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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
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"At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?"
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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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"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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