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.

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.

The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.