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Douglas McIlroy Quotes

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Douglas McIlroy
Philosophy, Writing, Working Together
"The Unix Oral History Project". Interview with Michael S. Mahoney, www.princeton.edu.

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

Douglas McIlroy
Real, Hero, Writing

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

Douglas McIlroy
Jobs, Today, Tomorrow

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

Douglas McIlroy
Simple, Keep It Simple

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Douglas McIlroy
Writing, Program, Streams
"A Quarter Century of UNIX". Book by Peter H. Salus, 1980.

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