Famous quotes by Scientists

"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"I wanted to avoid special IO for terminals"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly, I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

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

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"We have persistant objects, they're called files"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"I am a very bottom-up thinker"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"I am a programmer"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

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

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"True character arises from a deeper well than religion"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

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