Condescending Quote by Scott Adams

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

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Henry Spencer

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

— Douglas Gwyn

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

— Linus Torvalds

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

— Bill Joy

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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

— David Wolfe

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

— Alan Perlis

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

— Ken Thompson

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

— Mauerer, Wolfgang