Unix Quotes
34 quotes by 21 authors
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
— Scott Adams
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
— Douglas Gwyn
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Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
— Rob Pike
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
— Donald Knuth
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Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,
— Dennis Ritchie
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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole…
— Dennis Ritchie
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The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...
— Dennis Ritchie
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
— Larry Wall
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all…
— Jamie Zawinski
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In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
— Chris Espinosa
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
— Bill Joy
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Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
— Hal Abelson
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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
— Henry Spencer
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This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text…
— Douglas McIlroy
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The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states…
— Bill Joy
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5…
— Larry Wall
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GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give…
— Richard Stallman
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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes…
— Eric S. Raymond
Who Wrote These Unix Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 34 Unix Quotes as follows: