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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson 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
Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. — Douglas McIlroy Copy Share Image
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming… — Anders Hejlsberg Copy Share Image
Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It… — James Gosling 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
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall 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 to handle… — Douglas McIlroy Copy Share Image
“useful thing about a File object is that it offers a much safer way to represent a file than just using a String file… — Kathy Sierra Copy Share Image
The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Linux is a leprosy; … This statement is not grammatically or factually correct. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no. — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object… this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change… — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities. — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image