#sever

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#appalling #bohemian #bought #existence #guitars

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. ↗

— Chris Rock

#hack #i #just #overrated #severely

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #before #beings #each #faces

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#faces #human #many #more #person

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 was kind of lost for several years. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#kind #lost #several #years

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#lives #our #our lives #points #several

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