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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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"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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Donna Grant

"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."

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Donna Grant

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

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Donna Grant

"It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!"

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Donna Grant

"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."

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Donna Grant

"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

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Donna Grant

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."

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Donna Grant

"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."

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Donna Grant

"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."

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Donna Grant

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

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Donna Grant

"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."

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Ken Thompson
"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

Idea

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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
"There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center."

Project

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Ken Thompson
"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

Gardening

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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
"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."

Gardening

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

Memory

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Ken Thompson
"When in doubt, use brute force."

Doubt

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Ken Thompson
"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."

Movies

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