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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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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."

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Akshay Vasu

"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"

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Akshay Vasu

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

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Akshay Vasu

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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Akshay Vasu

"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."

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Akshay Vasu

"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."

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Akshay Vasu

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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

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Ken Thompson
"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."

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Ken Thompson
"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

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Ken Thompson
"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."

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Ken Thompson
"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."

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Ken Thompson
"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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Ken Thompson
"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

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Ken Thompson
"When in doubt, use brute force."

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Ken Thompson
"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."

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Ken Thompson
"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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