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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.


Dennis Ritchie


#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.


Thelma Ritter


#invented #killing #nobody #polite #word

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.


Oscar Robertson


#i #invent #now #people #stars

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.


Will Rogers


#conceives #gets #getting #inventions #many

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.


Erik Satie


#art #invented #modest #most #musician

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.


Mark E. Smith


#england #fall #fans #him #i

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.


George Soros


#allow #care #designed #great #i

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.


Allen Tate


#according #anything #because #become #been

He was a wise man who invented beer.


Plato


#invented #man #who #wise #wise man

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.


Steve Jobs


#because #before #big #big thing #desktop