91 Quotes by Ken Thompson

I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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.

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

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