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.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.