I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that werent really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. – Ken Thompson
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. – Ken Thompson
You cant trust code that you did not totally create yourself. – Ken Thompson
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil