Inspirational Quote by Larry Wall

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

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

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

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

— Tom Christiansen

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself…

— Ellen Ullman

“The history of Unix should have prepared us for what we’re learning from Linux (and what I’ve verified experimentally on a smaller scale by…

— Eric S. Raymond

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the…

— Dennis Ritchie

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web,…

— Jaron Lanier

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

— Darl McBride

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

— Jeremy S. Anderson

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

— Chris Espinosa

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

— Dave Cutler