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Ken Thompson Inspirational Quotes (32)

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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
Ken Thompson
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I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
Kenan Thompson
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
Ken Thompson
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Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
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Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.
Kenan Thompson
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I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.
Kenan Thompson
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I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
Ken Thompson
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I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
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There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.
Kenan Thompson
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SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
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I was a good student in school.
Kenan Thompson
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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
Kenneth P. Thompson
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
Ken Thompson
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You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.
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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!
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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
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I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.
Kenan Thompson
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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Ken Thompson
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