Dennis Ritchie Quotes - Page 2

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

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

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.