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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. — Ken Thompson

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. — Ken Thompson

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson

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

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. — Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. — Ken Thompson

We have persistant objects, they're called files. — Ken Thompson

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. — Ken Thompson

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. — Ken Thompson

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. — Dennis Ritchie

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. — Ken Thompson

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

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

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

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again. — Ken Thompson

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. — Ken Thompson

I am a programmer. — Ken Thompson

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it. — Ken Thompson

The steady state of disks is full. — Ken Thompson

We have persistent objects, they're called files. — Ken Thompson

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals. — Ken Thompson

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! — Ken Thompson

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. — Ken Thompson

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. — Ken Thompson

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. — Ken Thompson

When in doubt, use brute force. — Ken Thompson

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. — Ken Thompson

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out! — Ken Thompson

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center. — Ken Thompson

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

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. — Ken Thompson

I am a very bottom-up thinker. — Ken Thompson

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. — Ken Thompson

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. — Ken Thompson