Quotes by Ken Thompson

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

Bugs

Impossible

Wells

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For most of that time, I’ve also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

Connections

Gardening

Years

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FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

Choices

Race

Three

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I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

Gardening

May

Writing

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

Book

Ideas

Should

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I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Bottom

Thinker

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I don’t think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven’t really had experience with.

Ideas

Strong

Thinking

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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.

Gardening

Jobs

Reading

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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.

Book

Jobs

Writing

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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Simple

Thinking

Writing

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Criminals

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Different

Doubt

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Files

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Garden

Gardener

Gardening

Good Memories

Great Day

Hackers

Has Beens

Hero

Humorous

I Can

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May

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Quotes by Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

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

For most of that time, I’ve also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

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

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

I don’t think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven’t really had experience with.

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 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 think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

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