"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."

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Source : "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.

Dennis Ritchie

#Quirky Quotes #Computer Quotes #Enormous Quotes

“I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.”

Source : Source: dhakadigest.net
“Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.”

Source : William Booth, Bramwell Booth (1921). “The founder's messages to soldiers during years 1907-1908”
“A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.”

Source : Interview with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.
“Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.”
“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.”
“Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.”
“If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.”

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