Top 31 Quotes by Ken Thompson

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

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

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

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.

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 fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

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.

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.