#era

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#i #managerial #more #over #past

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#built #came #composer #composers #concept

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#general #governs #individual #private #rules

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? ↗

— Noel Coward

#any #exasperating #guarantee #less #reliable

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. ↗

— Yvonne Craig

#direct #growing #growing up #had #i

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#felt #fiction #general #i #influence

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#alarm #basic #business #difficulty #easily

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#get #happy #i #i write #joke