I am a very bottom-up thinker.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

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.

When in doubt, use brute force.

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

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

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

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

I am a programmer.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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

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

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

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

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

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

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.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

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

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

When in doubt use brute force.

I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

You will never have a completely bad day if you show kindness at least once.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!