<story><title>Ken Thompson quotes</title><url>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nappy-doo</author><text>Years ago, I started at Google, and was in Charlie&amp;#x27;s cafe, eating alone. I&amp;#x27;m sitting there, and up walks Ken Thompson. He sits down, introduces himself as Ken, and asks me what I work on. We sat there for a good 40 minutes just chatting.&lt;p&gt;One of my coolest memories of working at Google was that time. He was so down to earth, never bothered to talk up about who he was (even though I knew). I really appreciated that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ken Thompson quotes</title><url>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>&amp;quot;You can&amp;#x27;t trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.&amp;quot; -Ken Thompson&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of Theo de Raadt&amp;#x27;s quote about ESR&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;many eyes&amp;quot; argument:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;My favorite part of the &amp;quot;many eyes&amp;quot; argument is how few bugs 
were found by the two eyes of Eric (the originator of the 
statement).  All the many eyes are apparently attached to a 
lot of hands that type lots of words about many eyes, and 
never actually audit code.&amp;quot;</text></comment>