Friendly Quote by David Wolfe

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

— Dennis Ritchie

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

— Ellen Ullman

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

— Dave Cutler

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

— Tom Christiansen

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

— Neal Stephenson

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

— Dennis Ritchie

UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something…

— Linus Torvalds

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking…

— Dennis Ritchie

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment…

— Eric S. Raymond