American - Scientist | February 4, 1943 -
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
Ken Thompson
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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
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