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Top Dennis Ritchie Quotes

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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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