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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"
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"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
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"Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."
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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."
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"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."
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"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."
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"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."
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"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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