Ken Thompson quotes - page 3

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center. (Ken Thompson)
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. View quote
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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. View quote
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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records. View quote
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For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science. View quote
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I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it. View quote
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In Plan 9 and Inferno, the key ideas are the protocol for communicating between components and the simplification and extension of particular concepts. In Plan 9, the key abstraction is the file system-anything you can read and write and select by names in a hierarchy-and the protocol exports that abstraction to remote channels to enable distribution. Inferno works similarly, but it has a layer of language interaction above it through the Limbo language interface-which is like Java, but cleaner I think. View quote
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