Ken Thompson Quotes
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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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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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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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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
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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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'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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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 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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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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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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It does everything Unix does only less reliably.
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Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?
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'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.