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

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

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

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

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

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

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