Ken Thompson Quotes
When in doubt, use brute force.
Pike, Rob. "Notes on Programming in C." Bell Labs, 1989.
The problem of African Poverty as revealed by the media has had a strong emotional effect on many, especially the images of sick and undernourished children. This quotation and {583199} are good examples of sophisticated observers calling for anything to be done even though there was doubt that it would actually help reduce the problem. Specific efforts to reduce poverty in third world nations have been unfortunately not very successful. Many have called for continual and even greatly increased efforts despite the fact that success was doubtful. A few critics objected to the waste of resources and called for radical new approaches to foreign aid.
He had a lifelong hatred toward the Internal Revenue Service. Finally he crashed his single engine airplane into the IRS offices, killing an IRS agent and committing suicide in a different version of suicide bombing.
Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.
