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Unix Quotes by Rob Pike
- Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
- Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
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- 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… — 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… — 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… — Jamie Zawinski
- In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for… — Chris Espinosa
- I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy