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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."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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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 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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"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
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"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."
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"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."
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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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"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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