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“I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.”

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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

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I am a programmer.

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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

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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.

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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was…

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