Dennis Ritchie quotes
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“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
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“C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.
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“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.
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“The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie (1988). “C Programming Language”, p.23, Prentice Hall
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“My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.”
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“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”
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“I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.”
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“... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.”
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“I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate”
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“Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9”
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“The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...”
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“I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "C Program Interview - Dennis Ritchie". Hotel Genius interview, genius.cat-v.org. July 2, 2003.
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“For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.
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“A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do”
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“Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "Unix: A Dialectic". Book by Dennis Ritchie, 1989.
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“Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.”
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“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.”
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“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”
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“Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.”
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“A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.”
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“Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.”
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“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”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.
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“Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,”
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“The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”
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“Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.”
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“It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.”
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“I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.
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“I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.”
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“The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.”
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“Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.”
-- Dennis RitchieSource : Source: genius.cat-v.org
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“A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.”
-- Dennis Ritchie
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