It does everything Unix does only less reliably. - Ken Thompson

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It does everything Unix does only less reliably.

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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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I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things.
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