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@@ -405,14 +405,12 @@ respectively. Let’s try the Dennis Richie’s <code>dmr</code> account:</p>
     .       ?</code></pre>
 <p>Even though this is not Ken’s doing, I feel this gives me licence to
 include this quote from the BSD <code>fortune</code> program:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike
-most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge,
-nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern
-driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant “?”
-lights up in the center of the dashboard. “The experienced
-driver”, he says, “will usually know what’s wrong.”</p>
-</blockquote>
+<pre><code>    Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike
+    most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge,
+    nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern
+    driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant &quot;?&quot;
+    lights up in the center of the dashboard. &quot;The experienced
+    driver&quot;, he says, &quot;will usually know what&#39;s wrong.&quot;</code></pre>
 <p>What’s the deal here? Well, that’s a slightly long story. The short version
 is we have gone so far back in the history of UNIX that <em>we don’t have
 filesystem paths yet</em>. In other words, we can’t say something like
@@ -474,11 +472,9 @@ the [B programming language] <a href="https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbma
 convenience of writing code in a high-level language – Multics was written
 in a version of PL/1 – and wanted the same convenience in UNIX. He preferred
 BCPL (a typeless language) to PL/1. As Dennis Ritchie [wrote] <a href="https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html" title="C History">6</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>B can be thought of as C without types; more accurately,
-it is BCPL squeezed into 8K bytes of memory and filtered
-through Thompson’s brain.</p>
-</blockquote>
+<pre><code>    B can be thought of as C without types; more accurately,
+    it is BCPL squeezed into 8K bytes of memory and filtered
+    through Thompson&#39;s brain.</code></pre>
 <p>A look at the B reference manual will show the strong correlation with C, and
 shows the source of a lot of C’s mysteriousness – some of which is preserved
 simply so that C could compile the <em>dozens</em> of lines of existing B code…</p>