Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

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.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.