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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

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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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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