Ecological Quote by Dennis Ritchie

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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

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

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

“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic:…

— Neal Stephenson

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

— 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

I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

“The history of Unix should have prepared us for what we’re learning from Linux (and what I’ve verified experimentally on a smaller scale by…

— Eric S. Raymond

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

— Kenneth P. Thompson

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

— Bill Joy

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

— Bill Joy