Dennis Ritchie Quotes

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected ...

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax ...

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
Labs.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.