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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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Amber Hurdle

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

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Amber Hurdle

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

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Amber Hurdle

"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

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Ken Thompson
"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."

College

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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."

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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
"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
"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."

Being

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

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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
"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."

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