Latest Dennis Ritchie Quotes from Interviews

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• For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

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  Book, Fiction, Pops

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• I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

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  Radio, Classical Music

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

• 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.

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  Home, Thinking, Long

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

• 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.

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  Philosophy, Real, Care

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

• 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

• It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

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  Ideas, Today, Niche

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

• C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Strong, Java, Levels

  Source: genius.cat-v.org