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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

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I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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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.

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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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I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 4th, 1943

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