Code Quote by Ken Thompson Download Open image “You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.” — Ken Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Code Programming Trust
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level… — Kenneth P. Thompson Copy Share Image
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me. — Linus Torvalds 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
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too. — Jessy Schram Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
When we`re done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image