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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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"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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"Gardening is not a rational act."

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"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."

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Asa Don Brown

"Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden."

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Asa Don Brown

"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

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Asa Don Brown

"To dwell is to garden."

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Asa Don Brown

"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."

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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."

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"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

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"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."

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Asa Don Brown

"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

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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
"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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Ken Thompson
"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."

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

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

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Ken Thompson
"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."

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

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