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

~Ken Thompson

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

~Ken Thompson

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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

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

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

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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

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

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

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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.

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We have persistant objects, they're called files.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 4th, 1943

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