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Ken Thompson

"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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"I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks."

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"It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other."

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"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."

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"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."

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"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."

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"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

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"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."

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"The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me."

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"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."

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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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"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."
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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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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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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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"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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