In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. Ken Thompson amusecollegeexercise Change image and share on social
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. Ken Thompson amountcodelevel Change image and share on social
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. Ken Thompson bighaveprogram Change image and share on social
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals. Ken Thompson avoidspecialterminal Change image and share on social
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. Ken Thompson developgoodidea Change image and share on social
There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center. Ken Thompson centercomputeproject Change image and share on social
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. Ken Thompson codecriminalhacker Change image and share on social
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 academicfindgarden Change image and share on social
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. Ken Thompson callhandhero Change image and share on social
