Ken Thompson Quotes
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We have persistent objects, they're called files.
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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
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Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
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I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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The steady state of disks is full.
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I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
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I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
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I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
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