Grant, if we edited fortran, I assume that you’d put a column thing in there. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write an ear to — Kenneth Lane Thompson
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly — Kenneth Lane Thompson
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
I think the major good idea in unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
The x server has to be the biggest program I’ve ever seen that doesn’t do anything for you. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
That brings me to dennis ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. — Kenneth Lane Thompson
There’s a lot of power in executing data – generating data and executing data. — Kenneth Lane Thompson