Unix Quotes

34 quotes by 21 authors

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
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
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. — Douglas Gwyn
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. — Donald Knuth
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie
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
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... — Dennis Ritchie
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall
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
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
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. — Hal Abelson
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
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer
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
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
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
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
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

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