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

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

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

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax ... — Dennis Ritchie

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

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. — Dennis Ritchie

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act. — Raymond Pettibon

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. — Dennis Ritchie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. — Ken Thompson

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

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

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. — Dennis Ritchie

It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. — David Byrne

The world must never know the things we do here,colonel. Never. Do i make myself clear? — Joel C. Rosenberg

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

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

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis M. Ritchie

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

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

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

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it. — Zachary Levi

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

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