Kenneth Lane Thompson Quotes

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

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

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

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

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

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won’t have another book finished by next week.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• I am a very bottom-up thinker.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• I am a programmer.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

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

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you’d put a column thing in there.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

• A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

  Kenneth Lane Thompson

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Birth:	4th February, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist

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