Dennis Ritchie Quotes

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.

Dennis Ritchie

Quotes to Explore

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Good
- Think
- Marriage
Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

H. Robert Horvitz
- Time
- Simple
- Investment
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

Edie Campbell
- People
- Time
- Done
It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

T. C. Boyle
- Time
- Heart
- Brain
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Lady Gregory
- Time
- World
- Death
Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

Patrick Kane
- Time
- Game
- Focus