Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for… — Chris Espinosa Copy Share Image
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around… — Jaron Lanier 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… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that. — Tom Christiansen Copy Share Image
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively… — Erik Naggum 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
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton? — Brian Boyle Copy Share Image
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs… — Douglas McIlroy Copy Share Image
