"On the one hand, the press, television, and……" — Ken Thompson
"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
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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 college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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More Calling Quotes
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and…
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going…
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding…
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
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