Computer Quote by Philip Greenspun

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

— Dave Cutler

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

— Tom Christiansen

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

— Dennis Ritchie

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

— Bill Joy

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 was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad…

— Aaron Swartz

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

If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating…

— Linus Torvalds

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole…

— Michael Arrington

I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you…

— Ryan C. Gordon

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 has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something…

— Linus Torvalds