When in doubt, use brute force.

- Ken Thompson

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

- Ken Thompson

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

- Ken Thompson

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

- Ken Thompson

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

- Ken Thompson

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

- Ken Thompson

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

- Ken Thompson

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

- Ken Thompson

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

- Ken Thompson