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Ken Thompson
February 4, 1943 -
Nationality: American
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: American Scientist

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

   

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