"I also have an idea for a book……" — Ken Thompson
"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
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32 Quotes by Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson has 32 quotes on this site.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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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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When in doubt, use brute force.
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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
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I am a programmer.
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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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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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I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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More Biodiversity Quotes
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one of 73 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one…
— David Attenborough
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the…
— Diane Ackerman
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and…
— Gaylord Nelson
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its…
— Richard Leakey
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives,…
— Wangari Maathai
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What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now…
— Stephanie Mills
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We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our…
— Unknown Author
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished…
— Norman Myers
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Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed…
— Norman Myers
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We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland,…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
— Unknown Author
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