1.
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
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
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
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
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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