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Ken Thompson
American
February 4, 1943
Scientist
We have persistant objects, they're called files.
Ken Thompson
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Objects
Files
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
Ken Thompson
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Wanted
Memory
Systems
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
Ken Thompson
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You
Thing
Put
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
Ken Thompson
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Would
Before
College
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
Ken Thompson
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You
Anything
Ever
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Ken Thompson
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Good
Think
I Think
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
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Work
Gardening
Really
