80 Column Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

— Dennis Ritchie

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

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

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

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

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

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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