Dennis Ritchie

“The working examples of important new systems seem to have come either from entrepreneurial efforts (Visicalc is a good example) or from large companies, like Bell Labs and most especially Xerox, that were much involved with computers and could afford research into them, but did not regard them as their primary business.”

“Another danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode.”

“The greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive relevance . Evidence for the worldwide fascination with computers is everywhere, from the articles on the financial, and even the front pages of the newspapers, to the difficulties that even the most prestigious universities experience in finding and keeping faculty in computer science. The best professors, instead of teaching bright students, join start”

“Computer science research is different from these more traditional disciplines. Philosophically it differs from the physical sciences because it seeks not to discover, explain, or exploit the natural world, but instead to study the properties of machines of human creation. In this it as analogous to mathematics, and indeed the "science" part of computer science is, for the most part mathematical in spirit. But an inevitable aspect of computer science is the creation of computer programs: objects that, though intangible, are subject to commercial exchange.”

“Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down. Plan 9 fortunes file .”

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. The Development of the C Language .”

“UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity. quote.com/quotes/authors/d/dennis_ritchie.html Brainy Quote.com .”

“Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On”

“I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party. USENET : net.unix”

“The Evolution of the UNIX Time”