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. Ken Thompson Read Quote
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. Ken Thompson Read Quote
There’s a lot of power in executing data – generating data and executing data. Ken Thompson Read Quote
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. Ken Thompson Read Quote
The X server has to be the biggest program I’ve ever seen that doesn’t do anything for you. Ken Thompson Read Quote
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. Ken Thompson Read Quote