91 Quotes by Ken Thompson

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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

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

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

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.