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UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down.

[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.

Another danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode.

Reflections on Software Research (1984)

Usenet is a strange place.

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