Files Quote by Ken Thompson Download Open image “We have persistent objects, they're called files.” — Ken Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Files Objects Persistent
So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
“A “file” was originally—in sixteenth-century England—a wire on which slips and bills and notes and letters could be strung for preservation and reference. Then… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are, and they're… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are — Plutarch Copy Share Image
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better. — Rene Magritte 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
I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs. — Damien Fahey Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
It's like I'm married to the silencer, Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers. Do art with your arteries, place that for… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
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