Top 31 Quotes by Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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

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

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

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.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

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