It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Image
