Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

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.

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.

Glow wherever you go and let the light of God reflect in the world around you. You carry the light of God and wherever you pass, darkness must flee.

Reading develops your imagination and ability to dream. Feed your mind with the right books.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

I have led a pretty colorful life.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."