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
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil