"In college, before video games, we would amuse……" — Ken Thompson
"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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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 also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
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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 fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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More Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
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