Quotes by Ken Thompson

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very...

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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had...

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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get 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 have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

#Ken Thompson