Unix Quote by Thomas Pynchon

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

— Mauerer, Wolfgang

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

— Erik Naggum

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

— Henry Spencer

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

— Dennis Ritchie

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

— Donald Knuth

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

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

— Dennis Ritchie

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C…

— Jamie Zawinski

“But, of course, the point of a programming language is that you don't just read it; you write it, too. You make it do…

— Robin Sloan

“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.”

— Mike Loukides

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

— Philip Greenspun

Knew New Gnu?

— C Aaron