When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

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.

...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Be confident and not cocky.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

Each of us has a private Austen.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.