Dennis Ritchie

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

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.