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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

Everything is a process.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

“Files are one thing. People are something else.”

— Stieg Larsson

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

— Dennis Ritchie

“UNIX. Understanding the meagerly documented, demanding, and complex sources of”

— Mauerer, Wolfgang

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

— Douglas Gwyn

“useful thing about a File object is that it offers a much safer way to represent a file than just using a String file…

— Kathy Sierra

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

— 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

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

— Darl McBride

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

— David Wolfe