I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
From Ken Thompson
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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