Ken Thompson Quotes & Sayings

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31 most famous Ken Thompson quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

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