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 to come by, or at least to propagate. — 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 as providing real software. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9 — 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 Image
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. — 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 still fairly… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
