Dennis Ritchie

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Another danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode.

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form.

Computer science research is different from these more traditional disciplines. Philosophically it differs from the physical sciences because it seeks not to discover, explain, or exploit the natural world, but instead to study the properties of machines of human creation.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.