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Ken Thompson

"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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A.E. Samaan

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

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A.E. Samaan

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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A.E. Samaan

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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A.E. Samaan

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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A.E. Samaan

"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

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A.E. Samaan

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."

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A.E. Samaan

"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."

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A.E. Samaan

"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."

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A.E. Samaan

"When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing."

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A.E. Samaan

"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."

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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
"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."

Being

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

Beauty

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

Want

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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
"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."

Life

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

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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
"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."

Day

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