"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

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"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too."

Ernest Borgnine, American Actor

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"Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!"

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"The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany."

Method Man, American Musician

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"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

Zakk Wylde, American Musician

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"Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day."

Barry White, American Musician

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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."

Lionel Hampton, American Musician

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"Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you."

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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too."

"Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!"

"The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany."

"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."

"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

"Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day."

"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."

"Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you."

Explore more quotes by Ken Thompson

"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."

"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."

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

"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."

"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."

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

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

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

"When in doubt, use brute force."

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