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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
Ken Thompson

Biography

Author Profession: Scientist
Nationality: American
Born: February 4, 1943

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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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I am a programmer.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
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