Ken Thompson Quotes
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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
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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.
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We have persistant objects, they're called files.
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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 am a programmer.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
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There's going to be no serious problem after this.
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked.
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I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.)
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I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrant death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
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Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: 'I'd spell creat with an e.'