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

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

How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton? — Brian Boyle

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike

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

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. — Rob Pike

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

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. — Larry Wall

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

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. — Donald Knuth

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad. — Rob Pike

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

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy

CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix. — Eric S. Raymond

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. — Erik Naggum

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer

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

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

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. — Douglas Gwyn

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson