91 Quotes by Ken Thompson

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

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

You can train yourself to notice this kind of wildlife. Next time you have some weeding or a bit of pruning to do, start looking at plants and ask yourself: 'What made that hole in that leaf?' or 'What's living in that hole?' You start to look at your garden in a completely different way.

Their laws aren't a good fit for escrow companies outside of California, and I think they're overly strict. They're trying to apply a law written for real estate escrow companies in California to any Internet escrow company based outside California.

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

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

We have persistent objects, they’re called files.

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