In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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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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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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