We have persistant objects, they're called files.

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.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

If comparison is the thief of joy then our culture is being robbed blind.

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.