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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
Ken Thompson
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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
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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.
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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.
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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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.
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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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