Dennis Ritchie Quotes

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• The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

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  Writing, Learning, Way

  Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie (1988). “C Programming Language”, p.23, Prentice Hall

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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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  Simple, Simplicity, Genius

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

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  Quirky, Computer, Programming

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

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• Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

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  Years, Linux, Research

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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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  Simplicity, Language, Computer

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

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  Two, Use, Unix

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• Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

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  Vacuums, Sometimes, Stills

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• ... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

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  Design, Succeed, Software

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• C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

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  Growing, Java, Faster

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

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  Growing Up, Hero, Growing

  "C Program Interview - Dennis Ritchie". Hotel Genius interview, genius.cat-v.org. July 2, 2003.

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• Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

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  Jobs, Years, Two

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• I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

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  Syntax, Language, Uncertain

  Linux Focus Interview, www.linuxfocus.org.

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• For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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  Technology, Infrastructure, Hard

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

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  Numbers, Unix, Expected

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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.

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  Successful, Unity, Groups

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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

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  People, Point Break, Stressed

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• I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

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  Microsoft, Java, Want

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.

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  Real, Book, Careers

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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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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  Unix, Certain, Software

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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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  Writing, People, Advice

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

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  Simple, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "Unix: A Dialectic". Book by Dennis Ritchie, 1989.

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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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  Fate, Definitions, Matter

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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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  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, sites.fas.harvard.edu. December 4, 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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  Html, Scripts, Now And Then

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• The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

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  Humorous, Cards, Records

  Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”

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