People Quote by Linus Torvalds

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Portability should be the default.

— Larry Wall

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe -…

— Wietse Venema

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

— Ellen Ullman

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Anonymous

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

— Dennis Ritchie

“The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.”

— Geralin Thomas

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

— Marc Andreessen

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

— Wietse Venema

“Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own:”

— Eric von Hippel

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis