"Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years……" — Dennis Ritchie
"Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20."
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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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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
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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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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
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Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.
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We can build a better product than Linux,
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We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
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