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Ken Thompson

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

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

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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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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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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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"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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"A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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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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