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By AnonymKen Thompson
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
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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By AnonymKen Thompson
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
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.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
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.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
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By AnonymKen Thompson
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
The steady state of disks is full.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
When in doubt, use brute force.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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By AnonymKen Thompson
I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.
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