Ken Thompson Quotes (77 Quotes)

Nature conservation can seem so remote. But in your own garden you can make a difference and you can enjoy that difference.

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

On behalf of Wachovia Corporation, I apologize to all Americans, and especially to African-Americans and people of African descent, ... We are deeply saddened by these findings.

It's about a necessity to be on a major interstate in our line of business.

Look at it from the point of view of the animals that live in your garden. They did not evolve in a tidy landscape, they evolved in a landscape where leaves and branches and whatever fell off the tree and just lay there.

Tom is one of the most astute financial professionals I have ever known. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Tom's talents assume the responsibilities of CFO for Wachovia.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

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

I'm very proud of our employees' ability to continue to generate record revenue, fueled by strong results in both our traditional banking and market-sensitive businesses. We continued to gain leverage from improving our efficiency, while at the same time investing significantly for future revenue growth.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

We have a binding legal agreement with Wachovia that we intend to vigorously pursue to consummation, ... We plan to continue the constructive merger integration dialogue which we've had over the past month and look forward to completing our merger with Wachovia.

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

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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

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

But not all online escrow sites agree. Their laws aren't a good fit for escrow companies outside of California, and I think they're overly strict, ... They're trying to apply a law written for real estate escrow companies in California to any Internet escrow company based outside California.

Today's outcome is a tremendous victory and a major milestone within the merger process, ... It is clear that Wachovia shareholders have strongly endorsed the compelling strategic rationale behind the Wachovia-First Union combination.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

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

I am a programmer.

My wife was working for a biotech company in San Diego when she walked away to become a mom, ... We have two children now and she plans to go back part-time someday. Any investing I do for her right now would be in education, to keep herself updated, ahead of the curve, especially since technology is moving so fast right now.

When in doubt, use brute force.

There seems to be no public policy purpose for the zoning that is there ... This whole thing just smacks of special interest politics.

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

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

Modern intensive farmland is a biological desert. Whereas if you tried to design a small nature reserve, you couldn't do better than the average garden - it's got all the required elements.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

We know that we cannot change the past, and we can't make up for the wrongs of slavery. But we can learn from our past, and begin a stronger dialogue about slavery and the experience of African-Americans in our country.

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

Outside of operating systems in general tend to operate on programs and they have to somehow turn the notion of data and programs inside out.

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

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.

Today's announcement reflects our board's confidence in Wachovia's performance and prospects for consistently growing earnings while maintaining a strong capital position.

By doing that in early fall, it gives the seed a chance to germinate and start maturing before the winter slows it down. Next spring it will start growing again and will be ready for the heat of the summer.

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

We are seeing the problems across the board. The fungus took advantage of the rain quicker than the grass.

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

I just know it has to be paid for, and it has to be paid for through productivity and the creation of wealth.

We're proud of our record fourth-quarter results and fourth consecutive year of double-digit earnings increases despite rising funding costs and related industry-wide pressure on margins.

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

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

UBS, City National Bank and First-Citizens are all unique banking franchises with different market strategies, but all recognize the value of being owners of The Clearing House. For companies with global operations or regional institutions focused in the U. S., The Clearing House provides the industry leadership and innovation that delivers a competitive advantage to institutions.

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

This is an excellent partnership that gives First Union a nationwide securities business, ... This transaction will substantially strengthen our distribution capabilities for equity capital markets activities as well as retail investment products and wealth management activities.

Most gardeners don't need me telling them that it's good to have year-round interest. You want a garden with as many flowers, for as long as possible, and that's what the pollinators want too. My advice is to garden just to suit yourself and the bees and the butterflies will be perfectly happy.

The only way we can overcome the tragedy of an immense disaster like this one is by pulling together as a nation and doing all we can to help out our fellow citizens in great need, ... The people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are not alone. Like the rest of our nation, the people of Wachovia want to lend them a helping hand so they can begin rebuilding their lives and their communities.

You can train yourself to notice this kind of wildlife. Next time you have some weeding or a bit of pruning to do, start looking at plants and ask yourself 'What made that hole in that leaf' or 'What's living in that hole' You start to look at your garden in a completely different way.

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

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

I look for that number to be 50 by the end of the year. That's the key to our business ... our employees. We've got a very close-knit, dedicated staff right now.