Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson, commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 February 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
The steady state of disks is full.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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.
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.
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
When in doubt, use brute force.