Dennis Ritchie

“I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.”

“At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.”