Multics Quotes & Sayings

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers. — Nas

I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'" — Tom Van Vleck

His pupils flared. "Is there a reason you do that, Princess?" "Is there any reason not to? — Sarah J. Maas

Music is poetry with personality, — Ross Lynch

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort. — Brian Kernighan

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself. — Anne Rice

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser. — Jim Butcher

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. — Jane Bryant Quinn

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. — Dennis Ritchie