Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

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.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.