Dennis Ritchie

The net is a great equalizer for ideas.

Legacy code is the software equivalent of a bad tattoo.

Unix's strength is in its tools, not its grandeur.

Teaching C is like teaching someone to drive a stick shift.

The joy of coding is in the creation, not the acclaim.

File systems are the backbone of persistent data.

Open source is the Unix way, evolved.

Memory management in C teaches responsibility.

The PDP-11 was the perfect machine for Unix.

Collaboration with Ken was the highlight of my career.

Bugs are inevitable; good design minimizes them.

The command line is more powerful than any GUI.

Retirement? I'd rather code.

Structs in C allow modeling the real world elegantly.

The internet owes much to Unix networking.

Life's too short for bad code.

Functions should be small and focused.

The ACM award was nice, but the work mattered more.

Compilers are the unsung heroes of programming.

Unix survived because it was right.