Kenneth Thompson
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Kenneth Thompson (born 4 February 1943) is a computer scientist and winner, with Dennis Ritchie, of the 1983 Turing Award. He is notable for his work on the Unix operating system.
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- The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house.
- Reflections on Trusting Trust
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- When in doubt, use brute force.
- We have persistent objects, they're called files.
- One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
- If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
- The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
- If I had to do it over again? Hmm... I guess I'd spell 'creat' with an 'e'.
- (On the design of Unix)
