Dennis RitchieAny editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9353Truth
Dennis RitchieI'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. ✨ The future according to Dennis Ritchie. Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld… ▶364HopeTime
Dennis RitchieUNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.376Life
Dennis RitchieFor infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. ✨ The future according to Dennis Ritchie. Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.377HopeTime
Dennis RitchieI've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.344Time
Dennis Ritchie... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.323Philosophy
Dennis RitchieWhen I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd. ✨ The futu… ▶368HopeReadingThought
Dennis RitchieA 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.325Time
Dennis RitchieC 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 new304Reading
Dennis RitchieAt least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler326Humanity
Dennis RitchieSometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.316Time
Dennis RitchieObviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.263Hope
Dennis RitchieThe number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.296Reading
Dennis RitchieC++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. ✨ The future according to Dennis Ritchie. Interview with Danny Kalev, www.it… ▶298HopeTime
Dennis RitchieThe 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 be… ▶309HopeTime
Dennis RitchieI fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.235Love
Dennis RitchieI can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight co… ▶236Death
Dennis RitchiePretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.171Truth
Dennis RitchieA program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.2510Humanity
Dennis RitchieC is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group. ✨ The future accordi… ▶187HopeTime
Dennis RitchieTwenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.132Humanity
Dennis RitchieA language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do155Death
Dennis RitchieThe only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. ✨ Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie (1988). C Programming Language, p.23, Prentice Hall157Reflection
Dennis RitchieMy 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 compu… ▶157Humanity
Dennis RitchieC is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. ✨ Inventing Unix. Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.137Politics
