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Ken Thompson

"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."

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"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."

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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"

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"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

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"Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate."

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

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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."

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

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"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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"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."

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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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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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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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"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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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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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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