#sever

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#any #essential #even #everything #i

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. ↗

— David Miliband

#big #britain #build #cultural #democratic

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. ↗

— Maria Monk

#bible #book #catholics #different #different times

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time. ↗

— Maria Monk

#every #every day #night #nunnery #often

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.' ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#called #comedy #film #friend #glen

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#art #artist #artistic #black #black and white

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#caught #dorm #even #friends #got

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#day #herself #his #i #interesting

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#around #california #camps #emigrants #farther