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Ken Thompson [1943-0] American

Rank: 102
Scientist, Computer Designer

Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson, commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
I am a programmer.		101
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.		102
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.		103
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.		104
When in doubt, use brute force.		105
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.		106
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.		107
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.		108
We have persistant objects, they're called files.		109
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.		110
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.		111
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.		112
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.		113
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.	Gardening	114
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.		115
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.		116
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.		117
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.		118
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.		119
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.		120
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.		121
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.	Trust	122
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.		123
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.		124
I am a very bottom-up thinker.		125
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.		126
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.		201
There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.		202
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.		203
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.		204
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.		205

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