That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

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Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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