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

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.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Monogamy is like good crystal beautiful but once you get it, all it takes is one chip and it's never the same again.

My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.

If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make... decisions because you have wider support of your own party.

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

If you remain in your comfort zone you will not go any further.

I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.