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I am a programmer.
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
When in doubt, use brute force.
The steady state of disks is full.
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
We have persistent objects, they're called files.
We have persistant objects, they're called files.
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
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.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
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 think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!
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.
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.
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.