Ken Thompson

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

I am a programmer.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.