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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
Dennis Ritchie

Authors on Unix Quotes: Dennis Ritchie Neal Stephenson Henry Spencer Donald Knuth Murphy J. Foster, Jr. Tom Christiansen Erik Naggum Michael Sweet Rob Pike Dave Cutler Larry Wall David Wolfe
2.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
Henry Spencer

3.
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie

4.
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
Dennis Ritchie

5.
Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
Dave Cutler

6.
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
Rob Pike

7.
Unix is back in vogue.
Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

8.
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
Michael Sweet

9.
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
Dennis Ritchie

10.
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
David Wolfe

11.
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
Tom Christiansen

12.
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
Neal Stephenson

13.
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Donald Knuth

14.
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Larry Wall

15.
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
Erik Naggum