Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password? - Ken Thompson

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Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?

Ken Thompson

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About Ken Thompson

Kenneth Lane Thompson (born 4 February 1943) is a computer scientist and winner of the 1983 Turing Award, together with Dennis Ritchie. He is notable for his work on the Unix operating system.

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Native Name: Kenneth Lane Thompson

Alternative Names: Kenneth Thompson • K. L. Thompson • Kenneth L. Thompson

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Linus Torvalds Dennis M. Ritchie Joe Armstrong Larry Wall Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Additional quotes by Ken Thompson

The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked.

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrant death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided that we hated C++. [laughter] ... [Returning to Go,] we started off with the idea that all three of us had to be talked into every feature in the language, so there was no extraneous garbage put into the language for any reason.