“The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.”
Source: Unix Time-Sharing System
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Famous Dennis Ritchie Quotes
“I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.”
“I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.”
“For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.”
“C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.”
“I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.”
“I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.”
“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”
“Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.”
“Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.”
“The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”
Source: C Programming Language
“Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.”
“Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9”
“The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.”
“Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.”
“I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.”
“I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.”
“Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.”