Ken Thompson Quotes & Sayings
31 most famous Ken Thompson quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“When in doubt, use brute force.”
“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”
“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.”
“I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.”
“In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.”
“I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.”
“In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.”
“It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.”
“That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.”
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