Ken Thompson Quotes
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We have persistant objects, they're called files.
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
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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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Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?
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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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There's going to be no serious problem after this.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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I am a programmer.
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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 avoid, special IO for terminals.
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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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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 wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
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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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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.'