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
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall 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
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
“VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy—it hasn’t the versatility… — Clifford Stoll 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
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike 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. Understanding the meagerly documented, demanding, and complex sources of” — Mauerer, Wolfgang 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
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. — Dennis Ritchie 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
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 got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that… — Richard Stallman 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 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
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
Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less… — Lore Sjoberg 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
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them — Dean Stockwell 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
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft… — Kenneth P. Thompson Copy Share Image
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