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Famous Ken Thompson Quotes
“FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.”
“In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.”
“You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.”
“The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.”
“If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.”
“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”