Ken Thompson

Scientist

1943-02-04

Quotes by Ken Thompson

• I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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

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

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• No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

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• When in doubt, use brute force.

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