"The X server has to be the biggest……" — Ken Thompson
"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you."
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32 Quotes by Ken Thompson
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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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