The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Ken Thompson
- You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
- It’s always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
- If you want to go somewhere, getting there is the best way to get there.
- No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
- The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
- I wanted to separate data from programs because data and instructions are very different.
- I don’t think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven’t really had experience with.
- It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
- In fact, we started off with two or three different shells, and each shell had a life of its own.
- 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.
Ken Thompson is a renowned American computer scientist, born on February 4, 1943. Best known for his influential contributions to the development of Unix operating system and the creation of the programming language B, which laid the foundation for the development of C. Thompson, along with Dennis Ritchie, received the Turing Award in 1984 for their pioneering work in the design and implementation of Unix.
Thompson began his career at Bell Labs, where he played a pivotal role in the development of Multics, a time-sharing operating system. Dissatisfied with Multics, he, along with Ritchie and others, set out to create a simpler and more efficient operating system, leading to the birth of Unix in the early 1970s. The impact of Unix on the computing world has been profound, influencing subsequent operating systems and becoming a cornerstone of modern computing.
Beyond his work on Unix, Thompson contributed significantly to computer security, co-authoring the first paper on computer virus detection. His work and innovations continue to influence the field of computer science, making him a key figure in the history of computing.
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