Ken Thompson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.”

“On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.”

“We have persistant objects, they're called files.”

“I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.”

“I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.”

“I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.”

“I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.”

“No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.”

“The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.”

“The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.”