Ken Thompson
Computer Scientist
"We have persistent objects, they're called files."
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Dean Martin
Singer
"I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman."
Joseph Brodsky
Poet, Essayist
"Every life has a file, if you will."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file."
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"I could send you a bone with a file in it, only you'd eat it."
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