UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B,… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share
