Certain Quote by Dennis Ritchie

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

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

— Bill Joy

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

— Dave Cutler

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

— David Wolfe

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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 think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

— Ken Thompson

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

— Henry Spencer

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