Ken Thompson vs. Ray Bradbury
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ken Thompson
1943 – present
Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system.
"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 recompi…"
Ray Bradbury
1920 – 2012
H. Rider Haggard was a British novelist famed for pioneering the adventure genre with novels such as "King Solomon's Mines" and "She." His tales of exotic lands and heroic quests captivated readers worldwide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others m…"
Connections
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