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Ken Thompson

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

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

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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together."

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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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"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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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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"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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"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."
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