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" I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. "
Ken Thompson
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" One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. "
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" Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. "
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" If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. "
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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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" I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. "
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Memory
" No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. "
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" You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. "
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" I am a programmer. "
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" A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect. "
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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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Day
Week
" I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals. "
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Wanted
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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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Movies
Television
Heroes
" When in doubt, use brute force. "
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Doubt
Brute
Force
" So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again. "
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Go
Back
Again
" That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. "
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Our
Collaboration
Been
" I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. "
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Instructions
Different
Data
" It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. "
Ken Thompson
Take
Always
Good
" One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. "
Ken Thompson
Which
Overnight
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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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Three
Different
Life
" In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. "
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Posing
Games
College
" The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. "
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You
Seen
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" The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. "
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Little
Average
Garden
" I am a very bottom-up thinker. "
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Bottom-Up
Very