Funny Quote by Henry Spencer Download Open image “Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.” — Henry Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Unix
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 Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that. — Tom Christiansen Copy Share Image
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“8th Commandment: "Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow man by using the One True Brace Style, even if… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image