List of Dennis Ritchie Quotes

The True-gnu Philosophy Is More Extreme Than I Care For, But It Certainly Laid A Foundation For The Current Scene, As Well As Providing Real Software.

A New Release Of Plan 9 Happened In June, And At About The Same Time A New Release Of The Inferno System, Which Began Here, Was Announced By Vita Nuova.

Oh, I've Seen Copies [of Linux Journal] Around The Terminal Room At The Labs.

Any Editing, Software Work, And Mail Is Done In This Exported Plan 9

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

One Of The Obvious Things That Went Wrong With Multics As A Commercial Success Was Just That It Was Sort Of Over-engineered In A Sense. There Was Just Too Much In It.

I've Done A Reasonable Amount Of Travelling, Which I Enjoyed, But Not For Too Long At A Time.

My Work Was Fairly Theoretical. It Was In Recursive Function Theory. And In Particular, Hierarchies Of Functions In Terms Of Computational Complexity. I Got Involved In Real Computers And Programming Mainly By Being - Well, I Was Interested Even As I Came To Graduate School.

Obviously, The Person Who Had Most Influence On My Career Was Ken Thompson.

I Listen To Mostly-classical Music, But Mostly By Radio - I'm Not An Audiophile.

I've Done A Reasonable Amount Of Travelling, Which I Enjoyed, But Not For Too Long At A Time. I'm A Home-body And Get Fatigued By It Fairly Soon, But Enjoy Thinking Back On Experiences When I've Returned And Then Often Wish I'd Arranged A Longer Stay In The Somewhat Exotic Place.

The Kind Of Programming That C Provides Will Probably Remain Similar Absolutely Or Slowly Decline In Usage, But Relatively, Javascript Or Its Variants, Or Xml, Will Continue To Become More Central.