The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

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.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

Them Frenchies!’ ‘Unchristian, that’s what I call ’em, ’ responded Mr. Stubbs severely. ‘I fair compassionate that wench.

Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

Madness is no madness when shared.