I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interfac… — Ken Thompson

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

Ken ThompsonScientist · American · b. 1943

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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. — Maya Angelou
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. — Lynn Abbey
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. — Ray Bradbury
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. — Ken Thompson
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. — Ken Thompson
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. — Ken Thompson