Dennis Ritchie

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

— Dennis Ritchie

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention…

— Dennis Ritchie

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

— Dennis Ritchie

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

— Dennis Ritchie

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

— Dennis Ritchie

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and…

— Dennis Ritchie

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it…

— Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system,…

— Dennis Ritchie

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

— Dennis Ritchie

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's…

— Dennis Ritchie

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

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

— Dennis Ritchie

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well…

— Dennis Ritchie

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed…

— Dennis Ritchie

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

— Dennis Ritchie

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

— Dennis Ritchie

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.…

— Dennis Ritchie

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

— Dennis Ritchie

The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B,…

— Dennis Ritchie

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

— Dennis Ritchie

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered…

— Dennis Ritchie