Please enjoy your stay on Planet Earth. - Unix co-creator Ken Thompson, asked what he’d do...

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Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.

So this got me to thinking . . . what if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming (crashing)? What would a machine's subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say?

- Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

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Unix co-creator Ken Thompson, asked what he’d do differently if had it do all over again, replied that he’d include the trailing “e” in the creat() system call.

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