UNIX Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über UNIX:

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. Scott Adams

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Scott Adams

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Eric S. Raymond

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Eric S. Raymond

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.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Dennis Ritchie

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

Eric S. Raymond

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Brian Kernighan

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Ken Thompson

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.

Ellen Ullman

The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!

Shiv Nadar