I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

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• Ken Thompson:

  I am a programmer.

• Ken Thompson:

  I am a very bottom-up thinker.

• Ken Thompson:

  I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself

• Ken Thompson:

  I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground,

• Ken Thompson:

  I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and writ

• Ken Thompson:

  I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

• Ken Thompson:

  I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

• Ken Thompson:

  I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

• Ken Thompson:

  If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

• Ken Thompson:

  In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.