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

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.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.