Dennis M. Ritchie

1941–2011 · American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C

Topics: programming, software engineering, unix

• I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party.

  — Dennis M. Ritchie

• Another danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode.

  — Dennis M. Ritchie

• [C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.

  — Dennis M. Ritchie

• C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

  — Dennis M. Ritchie