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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams,
American
Cartoonist
#Trouble
#Unix
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Bill Joy,
American
Businessman
#People
#Unix
#Complaining
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,
American
Author
#Present
#Environment
#Unix
#Machines
#Software
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,
American
Author
#Thinking
#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,
American
Author
#Time
#Years
#Home
#First
#Power
#Development
#Talking
#Environment
#Internet
#Unix
#Machines
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,
American
Scientist
#Being
#Unix
#Machines
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie,
American
Scientist
#Simplicity
#Genius
#Unix
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Ken Thompson,
American
Scientist
#Idea
#Open
#Unix
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Jamie Zawinski,
American
Scientist
#Today
#Windows
#Unix
#Linux