Quotes by Unix Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs. Dave Cutler unixphdsjunk UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. David Wolfe unixoperating-systemsfriendly Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. Dennis Ritchie unixusetwo The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. Dennis Ritchie unixexpectednumbers It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. Dennis Ritchie unixsoftwarecertain 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 unixmachinesdifferent I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. Donald Knuth unixdefinitionsexpression 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 unixadmiresuccessful 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 unixreinventionwheels Unix in particular is very poor at network printing. Michael Sweet unixprintingpoor Unix is back in vogue. Murphy J. Foster, Jr. unixvogue Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history. Neal Stephenson oral-historyunixoperating-systems Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. Rob Pike unixlanguagelistening Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. Tom Christiansen unixoperating-systemsnice
