Ken Thompson Quotes (77 Quotes)

The bottom line for us is we are experiencing excellent revenue growth..., ... We have good expectations for the fourth quarter and all of 2006.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

Jerry is an extraordinary leader who has the experience and talent to help propel this division forward. He is known among his peers and team as a thoughtful and analytical leader who brings a strong base of diverse banking experience to the role. I am confident that Jerry will continue to manage this division efficiently and partner effectively with other Wachovia leaders to support our customer service and business growth goals. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Jerry's talents assume this position for Wachovia.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will produce as output an exact copy of its source.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it

We're especially pleased with solid fee income growth across the board, ... We see no signs of credit deterioration on the horizon.

Lloyd will certainly be missed by all of our board members. He has been a trusted and valued member of our board since the First Union-Wachovia merger and we wish him well during retirement.

I am confident that Tom's direction and guidance will ensure strategic continuity and sustained financial discipline, and he is already well known to our investor community.

My background for obtaining these ideas was uh, there was a I went to the school at Berkeley and there was a thing called Project Genie at Berkeley.

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

This is a policy I strongly recommend. If your employer covers 50 percent to 60 percent for it, pay out of your pocket and raise it to 80 percent coverage, ... When you leave work, generally you'll be left with that private policy.

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

Bob has been an outstanding leader at Wachovia for the past five years, which have been pivotal for our company.

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.

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

This increase is consistent with our stated guideline for dividend payout.

We're establishing these funds because we know we need to look to the future -- to what will help this region thrive for years to come, ... We invite other businesses across the country to join us in contributing to these funds in support of this work, which is crucial to the Gulf Coast's long-term development.

But if you really want to know how to live on one income, you might have to move back with your parents,

The more I think about the nettle argument, the more it makes me laugh. This country's awash with nettles. Butterflies that eat them are not in any difficulty at all.

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

We have made significant progress toward completing the regulatory approval process, and we look forward to seeing the results from the Wachovia shareholder meeting later this week,

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.

He had a passion since he was a little kid to fly.

We are confident we are positioning the company for superior growth. This is what we want to be known for.

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

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.