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

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"A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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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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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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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 think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."
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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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"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."

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"We do not attract what we want, but what we are."

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"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."

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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."

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"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench."

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"You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know."

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"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price."

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"Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got."

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"I'm just writing a story that I want to read."

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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

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