Quotes by Ken Thompson

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,...

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I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years...

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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but...

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I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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I am a programmer.

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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we...

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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

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When in doubt, use brute force.

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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was...

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