Unix famous quotes

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
-- Dave Cutler

#Junk #Phds #Unix

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Numbers #Unix #Expected

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Different #Machines #Unix

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

#Two #Use #Unix

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Unix #Certain #Software

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

#Expression #Definitions #Unix

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

#Successful #Unix #Admire

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

#Unix

Unix is back in vogue.
-- Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

#Unix #Vogue

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
-- Rob Pike

#Listening #Language #Unix

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
-- Tom Christiansen

#Nice #Operating Systems #Unix

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
-- Michael Sweet

#Printing #Poor #Unix