“If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?”

Quoted by Eric Thurnauer for Stuff Magazine (November/December 1998)

"Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson," 1999
Context: Unix was a very small, understandable OS, so people could change it at their will. It would run itself—you could type "go" and in a few minutes it would recompile itself. You had total control over the whole system. So it was very beneficial to a lot of people, especially at universities, because it was very hard to teach computing from an IBM end-user point of view. Unix was small, and you could go through it line by line and understand exactly how it worked. That was the origin of the so-called Unix culture.

Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 2

Source: The Tunnel (1995), p. 226

&quot; <br class="br">&quot; Senior Convocation Speech http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html,&quot; Cornell University (1998-05-23)

This Is Where I Leave You (2009), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/This_Is_Where_I_Leave_You.html?id=3jVps2Z9LQcC, <br class="br">Source: This is Where I Leave You

Source: Creative Mythology