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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Jamie Zawinski
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Eric S. Raymond
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Ken Thompson
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams 
56% of people like this quote
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
56% of people like this quote
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Jamie Zawinski
54% of people like this quote
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Eric S. Raymond
52% of people like this quote
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Ken Thompson
50% of people like this quote
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
Eric S. Raymond
50% of people like this quote
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.
Dennis Ritchie
48% of people like this quote
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Bill Joy
46% of people like this quote
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
43% of people like this quote
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