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

— David Wolfe

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

— Dave Cutler

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

— Tom Christiansen

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

— Douglas Gwyn

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

— Dennis Ritchie

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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

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

— Henry Spencer

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

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Bill Joy