Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie 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
“On a UNIX system, everything is a file; if something is not a file, it is a process.” — Machtelt Garrels Copy Share Image
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton? — Brian Boyle 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
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
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
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
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall 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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
“In 1958 AT&T, the owner of Bell Labs, was served with an antitrust court order that forbade it to ever enter the… — Arun Rao 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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie 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
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