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

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

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

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

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.

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

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