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Ken Thompson Quotes

American - Scientist | February 4, 1943 -

I am a programmer.

I Am Programmer Am

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.

Work Myself Job Gardening Reading

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.

Day Job Me Book Week Why

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

Good Simple Think Clean Write Open

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

Special Avoid Wanted

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

Memory Systems Wanted Virtual Least

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

Data Because Instructions Different

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

Serious Criminal Only Code Hackers

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

You Will Protect Code Scrutiny

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

Television Movies Hand Heroes Kids

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

Perfect Garden Overnight Created

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

World Back I Can Go Being Again

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