Linux Quote by Dennis Ritchie Download Open image “Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.” — Dennis Ritchie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Linux Programming Research Retarded Unix Years
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 Copy Share Image
Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away. — Ingo Molnar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9 — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
