Unix Operating Quotes & Sayings

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. — Tom Christiansen

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history. — Neal Stephenson

Only 'he', who becomes free from his intellect (abudha), can become Omniscient (sarvagna). — Dada Bhagwan

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. — Dag Hammarskjold

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl. — Pete Rozelle

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe

We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think. — Rhonda Byrne

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else. — John C. Maxwell

ASTRO-GYMNASTICS
Go on a starlit night,
stand on your head,
leave your feet dangling
outwards into space,
and let the starry
firmament you tread
be, for the moment,
your elected base.
Feel Earth's colossal weight
of ice and granite,
of molten magma,
water, iron, and lead;
and briefly hold
this strangely solid planet
balanced upon
your strangely solid head. — Piet Hein

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it. — Dennis Ritchie

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all. — Dominic West

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. — Jamie Zawinski

What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season. — George Allen

So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark — Barbara Kingsolver

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems. — Vernor Vinge

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts. — Peter Dinklage

If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
of different places, just write a Unix operating system. — Linus Torvalds

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum