Appreciate Quote by Dennis Ritchie

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

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

— David Wolfe

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

— Henry Spencer

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 a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic:…

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Ken Thompson

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

— Douglas Gwyn

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

“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

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

— Dave Cutler