68 Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

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

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

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

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.