"The only way to learn a new programming……" — Dennis Ritchie
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it."
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33 Quotes by Dennis Ritchie
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A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
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... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
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Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,
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Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
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A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.
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Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.
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A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the…
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At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is:…
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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended…
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C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of…
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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but…
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High thoughts must have high language.
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War is what happens when language fails.
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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