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- From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin)
- Subject: Ken Thompson (was Re: Brute Force)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.062305.23829@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Chickenhawk Software
- References: <1992Dec22.212015.7387@news.acns.nwu.edu> <BzoJxp.9qB@world.std.com> <FISCHER.92Dec28223625@orange.iesd.auc.dk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:23:05 GMT
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- In article <FISCHER.92Dec28223625@orange.iesd.auc.dk>,
- fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer) writes:
-
- > "When in doubt, use brute force" - Ken Thompson
-
- Hell, if we're going to start quoting Ken Thompson, here are a few:
-
- `Maybe I should have screwed up.'
-
- `SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in
- but it never checks out.'
-
- `I know nothing.'
-
- `Timesharing just doesn't work.' [1982]
-
- `Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it.
- Makes you feel warm inside.'
-
- `If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.'
-
- `... spell `creat' with an E.' [When asked what he would do
- differently if starting UNIX over again. Note that in
- Plan 9, `creat' _is_ spelled with an E.]
-
- --
- John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
- Knox's box is a 286. Fox in Socks does hacks and tricks
- Knox's box is hard to fix. To fix poor Knox's box for kicks.
-