A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

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

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

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

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

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

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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

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

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

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Give everyone you meet a precious gift

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.