Inspirational Quote by Larry Wall

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

— Sean Penn

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

— Anonymous

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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

— Henry Spencer

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

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

There have been great soceties that did not use the wheel, but there have been no sociweties that did not tell stories

— Ursula K Leguin

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

— Neal Stephenson

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

— Linus Torvalds

“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

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

— Dave Cutler