Ken Thompson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.”

“If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.”

“A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.”

“Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.”

“I am a very bottom-up thinker.”

“It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.”

“One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.”

“So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.”

“There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.”

“Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.”