Unix Quotes

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

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Unix is back in vogue.

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.