Assume Quote by Ken Thompson Download Open image “Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.” — Ken Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assume Column Edited Grant Put Thing You
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
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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
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
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 Image
We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I… — Jase Robertson Copy Share Image
I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image