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Explore our hand-picked selection of 43 inspiring quotes by Dennis Ritchie.

About Dennis Ritchie

  • Born: September 9, 1941
  • Died: October 12, 2011
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist
    • The true-gnu philosophy is more extreme than i care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.
    Philosophy Real Care
    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.
    June Inferno Release
    Oh, i've seen copies [of linux journal] around the terminal room at the labs.
    Labs Rooms Linux
    Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported plan 9
    Editing Done Mail
    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
    Different Machines Unix
    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.
    Obvious Things Too Much Obvious
    I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which i enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
    Journey Long Done
    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.
    Real School Hierarchy
    Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was ken thompson.
    Careers Influence Persons
    I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - i'm not an audiophile.
    Radio Classical Music
    I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which i enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. i'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when i've returned and then often wish i'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.
    Home Thinking Long
    The kind of programming that c provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, javascript or its variants, or xml, will continue to become more central.
    Aggravation Javascript Kind
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