"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty." ― Ken Thompson Topic(s): History More From Ken Thompson "You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself." More In History "The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."― Elizabeth II "History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen."― Enoch Powell "When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."― Norman MacCaig