Clever Quote by Douglas Gwyn

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 simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Henry Spencer

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

— Tom Christiansen

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

— Dave Cutler

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

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel…

— Larry Wall

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

— 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