"In fact, we started off with two or……" — Ken Thompson
"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."
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32 Quotes by Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
- It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
- When in doubt, use brute force.
- A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
- I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
- I am a programmer.
- I am a very bottom-up thinker.
- I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
- I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
- I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
- If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
- In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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