If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams 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
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall 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 has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — 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
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
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
“Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But… — Vernor Vinge 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
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. — Hal Abelson 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
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
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a… — Linus Torvalds 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
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
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
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe 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
“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for “Use The… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left… — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
