Kenneth P. Thompson quotes

“You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.”
-- Kenneth P. Thompson

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“I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.”
-- Kenneth P. Thompson

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“I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.”
-- Kenneth P. Thompson

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“I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.”
-- Kenneth P. Thompson

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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.”

“[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.”

“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”

“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.30, Penguin

“Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.”

“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.”

“Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1957). “In the university tradition”

“Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.”