C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

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++ 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.

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

... 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.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life

The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

You can't receive a living wage unless you work.