Dennis Ritchie Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

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

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  Simple, Simplicity, Genius

• C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

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  Quirky, Computer, Programming

  "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.

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

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  Simplicity, Language, Computer

• A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

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  People, Point Break, Stressed

• Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Real, Book, Careers

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

• 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.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Real, School, Hierarchy

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