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Ken Thompson

"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."

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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."

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"As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created."

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"The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

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"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."

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"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."

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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

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"I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles."

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"In a battle between - two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it."

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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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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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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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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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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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"A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
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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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"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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