Choices Quote by Ken Thompson Download Open image “FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.” — Ken Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Choices Computer language Language Programming Race Reason Three
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have so many languages in my mind and it's something nice to be able to speak languages in the game. — Andre Onana Copy Share Image
“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image