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

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

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

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

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
Ken Thompson

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

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.
Ken Thompson

We have persistant objects, they're called files.
Ken Thompson

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
Ken Thompson

When in doubt, use brute force.
Ken Thompson

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