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

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

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

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

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

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