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.

Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.