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

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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

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"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."

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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 is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

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"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."

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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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"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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