Ive seen [visual] editors like that, but I dont feel a need for them. — Ken Thompson

"Theres going to be no serious problem after this."

"I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable."

"I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.)"

"The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbors house. It should not matter that the neighbors door is unlocked."

"I would try out the [C++] language [at AT&T] as it was being developed and make comments on it. It was part of the work atmosphere there. And youd write something and then the next day it wouldnt work because the language changed. It was very unstable for a very long period of time. At some point, I said, no, no more. In an interview I said exactly that, that I didnt use it because it wouldnt stay still for two days in a row. When Stroustrup read the interview he came screaming into my room about how I was undermining him and what I said mattered and I said it was a bad language."

"Gigabit seems to mean 600 megabits. Its a VAX gigabit."