Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton? — Brian Boyle Copy Share Image
“On a UNIX system, everything is a file; if something is not a file, it is a process.” — Machtelt Garrels Copy Share Image
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... — 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
Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie 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
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams 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
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe 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
The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in;… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that… — Jamie Zawinski 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
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even… — Linus Torvalds 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
I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death… — Kenneth P. Thompson 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
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However,… — Bill Joy 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
“The history of Unix should have prepared us for what we’re learning from Linux (and what I’ve verified experimentally on a smaller… — Eric S. Raymond 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
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
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie 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
“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” — Jeremy S. Anderson 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
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it. — Bill Joy 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
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
