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Ken Thompson has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
• It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
• When in doubt, use brute force.
• A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
• I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
• I am a programmer.
• I am a very bottom-up thinker.
• I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
• I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
• I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
• If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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