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.

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

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

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

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

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do