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Top Dennis Ritchie Quotes

Browse top 17 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Dennis Ritchie.

Favorite Dennis Ritchie Quotes

1. "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." ~ Dennis Ritchie
2. "C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around." ~ Dennis Ritchie
3. "I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell." ~ Dennis Ritchie
4. "I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time." ~ Dennis Ritchie
5. "Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson." ~ Dennis Ritchie
6. "For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace." ~ Dennis Ritchie
7. "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." ~ Dennis Ritchie
8. "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." ~ Dennis Ritchie
9. "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 Ritchie
10. "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." ~ Dennis Ritchie
11. "Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9." ~ Dennis Ritchie
12. "I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things." ~ Dennis Ritchie
13. "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." ~ Dennis Ritchie
14. "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." ~ Dennis Ritchie
15. "At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?" ~ Dennis Ritchie
16. "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
17. "One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it." ~ Dennis Ritchie

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When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination. Forsakingbeauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively servingmisfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude."
Author: Albert Camus

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