Dennis Ritchie quotes - page 2

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. (Dennis Ritchie)
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. View quote
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One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova. View quote
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Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. View quote
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Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down. View quote
Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

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Photo: Denise Panyik-Dale, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Scientist
Born: September 9, 1941
Died: October 12, 2011
Quotes count: 32
Wikipedia: Dennis Ritchie

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