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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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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving 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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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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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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There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
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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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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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'I've seen visual editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing.'
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
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grep was a private command of mine for quite a while before i made it public.
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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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When in doubt, use brute force.
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'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.
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