quotes about Unix
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Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
-- Dave Cutler -
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...
-- Dennis Ritchie -
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 -
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,
-- Dennis Ritchie -
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It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
-- Donald Knuth -
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 -
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer -
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Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
-- Rob PikeSource : "Rob Pike Responds". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. October 18, 2004.
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Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
-- Tom Christiansen -
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
-- Michael Sweet -