68 Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

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

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group