I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

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.

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.

Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the tyrants of the present are unleashed.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

You have to have a strong team around you [being a president].

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.