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Ken Thompson

"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."

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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."

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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 also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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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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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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