Break Quote by Tom Christiansen

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

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

— Dave Cutler

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

— Douglas Gwyn

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

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

— Neal Stephenson

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

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

— Theo de Raadt

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 has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— David Wolfe

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

— Darl McBride