--- title: "1 Past Years Quotes By Dennis Ritchie" description: "1 Past Years quotes by Dennis Ritchie. Plus more from Dennis Ritchie and more Past Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/dennis-ritchie-13863_been_over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-mo_3048858.jpg" --- > [Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-more-in-a-managerial-role/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/dennis-ritchie-13863_been_over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-mo_3048858.jpg) ## More by Dennis Ritchie > [Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/any-editing-software-work-and-mail-is-done-in-this-exported-plan-9/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/i-can-t-recall-any-difficulty-in-making-the-c-language-definition/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) > [I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/i-listen-to-mostly-classical-music-but-mostly-by-radio-i-m-not-an/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) > [I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/i-m-still-uncertain-about-the-language-declaration-syntax/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/obviously-the-person-who-had-most-influence-on-my-career-was-ken/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) > [Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/sometimes-when-you-fill-a-vacuum-it-still-sucks/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) > [Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/steve-jobs-has-said-that-xwindows-is-brain-damamged-and-will/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/i-ve-done-a-reasonable-amount-of-travelling-which-i-enjoyed-but-not/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/at-the-same-time-much-of-it-seems-to-have-to-do-with-recreating/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/a-new-release-of-plan-9-happened-in-june-and-at-about-the-same-time-a/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) > [I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/i-fix-things-now-and-then-more-often-tweak-html-and-make-scripts-to/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/c-is-declining-somewhat-in-usage-compared-to-c-and-maybe-java-but/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/it-s-true-that-compared-with-the-scene-when-unix-started-today-the/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) > [The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/the-notion-of-a-record-is-an-obsolete-remnant-of-the-days-of-the-80/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/the-true-gnu-philosophy-is-more-extreme-than-i-care-for-but-it/) [Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/past-years/dennis-ritchie/#itemlist", "name": "1 Past Years Quotes By Dennis Ritchie", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dennis Ritchie" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-more-in-a-managerial-role/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/dennis-ritchie-13863_been_over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-mo_3048858.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/dennis-ritchie-13863_been_over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-mo_3048858.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/dennis-ritchie-13863_been_over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-mo_3048858.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.” — Dennis Ritchie", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/past-years/dennis-ritchie/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/past-years/dennis-ritchie/", "name": "Past Years Quotes by Dennis Ritchie", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/past-years/dennis-ritchie/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/dennis-ritchie-13863_been_over-the-past-several-years-i-ve-been-mo_3048858.jpg" }, "description": "1 Past Years quotes by Dennis Ritchie. 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