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Ken Thompson

"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."

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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."

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"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."

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"I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak."

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"I want to make the world better."

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"Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call."

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"We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax."

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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."

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"Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again."

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"I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant."

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"I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about."

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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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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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"A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
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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 probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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