Books Quote by Ken Thompson

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

— Dennis Ritchie

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

— Bill Joy

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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

— Dennis Ritchie

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

— Dennis Ritchie

This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle…

— Douglas McIlroy

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

— David Wolfe

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

— Erik Naggum

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

— Tom Christiansen

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

— Douglas Gwyn

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder…

— Dennis Ritchie

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

— Kenneth P. Thompson