The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

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.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

I just wanted it to be American.

Money is easy to hide.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

It's normal that people expect more from the French team.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.