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“Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.”

Knows Littles Helping Source Code Shells Grammar Examination Bourne Little Help

Author:Tom Duff

“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

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Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.”

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Author:Kenneth P. Thompson

“Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.”

Source Program Code Features Software Users Malicious

Author:Richard Stallman

“I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.”

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Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!”

Language Lines Numbers Source Code Assembly Assembly Language

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

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

Levels Source Amount Protect Code Scrutiny Protect You Verification

Author:Ken Thompson

“It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.”

Thinking Form Mistake Produce Materials Source Solutions Program Argument Code Programmers Trustworthy

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?”

Humans Body Source Revolution Code Iron Plastic Steel Consent Human Body Biotech

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.”

Hard Enough Able Wanted Space Source Type University Code Hacks Operating Systems

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick