Dennis Ritchie Quotes - Page 2

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• Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Filled Out, Data, People

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• The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

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  Humorous, Cards, Records

  Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”

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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

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

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  Important, Bells, Labs

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• 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.

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  Real, School, Hierarchy

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• From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

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  Views, People, Research

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• 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.

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  Aggravation, Javascript, Kind

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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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

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• Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

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  Careers, Influence, Persons

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• I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

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  Journey, Long, Done

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• 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.

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  Obvious Things, Too Much, Obvious

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• 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

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• Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

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  Editing, Done, Mail

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• 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

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  Different, Machines, Unix

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• Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
  Labs.

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  Labs, Rooms, Linux

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• 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.

  Dennis Ritchie

  June, Inferno, Release

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