UNIX Quotes

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. Dennis Ritchie
You Genius Simple Simplicity System Operating Operating System Understand Basically UNIX
Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems. Brian Kernighan
Reputation Incomplete Difficult Think Assumed Other Way Systems About Had Shared Learn Years Just Being Different Conventions Means Many Works Mechanisms Basic Things Set UNIX
I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command. Ellen Ullman
You Age Yourself Single Pleasure System Out Could Learned Came Command Where Technical Right UNIX
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. Eric S. Raymond
Face Software Types Machines Could Environment Same Common Different Capabilities Them Many Different Types Serve Present UNIX
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. Eric S. Raymond
Time Home Internet Power First Machines Ten Ten Years Could Individual Hackers Environment Development Supporting Talking First Time Years Afford Storage Capable Capacity Full Engines Comparable Earlier UNIX
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. Eric S. Raymond
Hacker Thinking Tribe Out Had Hostile Observer Almost Story Might Fortunes Grounds Played Early UNIX
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. Jaron Lanier
Me Culture Path Punctuation Kids Pretty Web Stuff Mass Know Around Shocking Get Childhood Little Little Kids Now Technical Right UNIX
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. Rob Pike
Challenge Consistent Would Data Structure Write Without Been Graceful Much Harder Kernel UNIX
The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked! Shiv Nadar
Government World Will First Hesitant Consistently India Advanced Implement Said Were Very Move Banks Worked UNIX
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