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. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was… — Ken Thompson Copy Share
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. — Ken Thompson Copy Share
