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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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"Having a job is being busy."
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"CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant."
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"CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing."
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"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9."
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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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"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 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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