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Quote by Ken Thompson

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

Quote by Ken Thompson

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Ken Thompson is a renowned computer designer, born on February 4, 1943. He has had a significant impact in the field of computer science, particularly in operating systems and programming languages. Thompson was one of the developers of the Unix operating system and the creator of the B programming language, which preceded C. more

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