Quotes by Unix Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs. Dave Cutler unix phds junk UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. David Wolfe unix operating-systems friendly Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. Dennis Ritchie unix use two The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. Dennis Ritchie unix expected numbers It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. Dennis Ritchie unix software certain 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 unix machines different I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. Donald Knuth unix definitions expression 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 unix admire successful Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Henry Spencer unix Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. Larry Wall unix reinvention wheels Unix in particular is very poor at network printing. Michael Sweet unix printing poor Unix is back in vogue. Murphy J. Foster, Jr. unix vogue Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history. Neal Stephenson oral-history unix operating-systems Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. Rob Pike unix language listening Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. Tom Christiansen unix operating-systems nice
