"I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less."

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Source : "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

Ken Thompson

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“Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.”
“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
“These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.”
“I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.”
“Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.”
“Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.”
“Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.”
“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.”

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