Linux Quote by Dennis Ritchie

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

— Dave Cutler

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

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

— Ingo Molnar

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

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder…

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Henry Spencer

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

— Darl McBride

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

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Neal Stephenson