Quotes About Unix

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

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

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

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

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.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

The ARPAnet/PDP-10 culture, wedded to LISP and MACRO and TOPS-10 and ITS and SAIL. The Unix and C crowd with their PDP-11s and VAXen and pokey telephone connections. And an anarchic horde of early microcomputer enthusiasts bent on taking computer power to the people.

Tools that look glossy but shatter under stress are not good long-term value. Unix

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence.

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

An ugly system is one in which there are special interfaces for everything you want to do. Unix is the opposite. It gives you the building blocks that are sufficient for doing everything. That's what having a clean design is all about.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

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

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.

elders.' " Working in collaboration with a small group of programmers, Joy took on the task of rewriting UNIX, which was a software system

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

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!

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.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.