Quote by Mauerer, Wolfgang

“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

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

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

— Henry Spencer

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'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

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

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Dave Cutler

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— David Wolfe

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