Unix Quotes
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Unix Quotes & Sayings
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Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.
— Tom Christiansen
Unix, BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Windows are Monozukuri.
— Mehmet Kececi
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
UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for Use The Source, Luke.
— Thomas Pynchon
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
— Neal Stephenson
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
— Larry Wall
Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
— Dave Cutler
HP-UX is a pretty good implementation of BSD, although it's not as featureful as SunOS.
— John R. Levine
Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..
— Dennis Ritchie
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
— Chris Espinosa
Unix is back in vogue.
— Murphy J. Foster Jr.
On a UNIX system, everything is a file; if something is not a file, it is a process.
— Machtelt Garrels
Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.
— Tom Jermoluk
there are some problems no Unix command can address.
— Aeleen Frisch
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. — Linus Torvalds
found on other Unix-like systems. The design is actually specified in a published standard called the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
— William E. Shotts Jr.
ASAP has helped IBM take more than $150 million worth of Unix business from Sun since its inception.
— James Larkin
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
— Dennis Ritchie
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
— Jeremy S. Anderson
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
— Darl McBride
CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.
— Eric S. Raymond
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
— Dean Stockwell
There is a flip side to this. In the Unix world, libraries which are delivered as libraries should come with exerciser programs.
— Eric S. Raymond
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
— Dennis Ritchie
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
— Tom Christiansen
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
— Scott Adams
Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.
— Dennis Ritchie
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
— Michael Sweet
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
— Eric Allman
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
— Bill Joy
