Цитата #185

"If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a unix command."

Author: Bill Lye
Tags: humor, unix

Цитата #183

"The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure. "

Tags: unix

Цитата #170

"Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."

Author: Eric Steven Raymond
Tags: plan 9, unix

Цитата #114

"If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."

Author: Scott Adams
Tags: unix

Цитата #113

"VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix."

Author: Jack W. Davidson
Tags: unix

Цитата #112

"Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure."

Author: Eric Paul Allman
Tags: unix

Цитата #111

"Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just "User-Unfriendly", it's "Proactively User-Hostile"! "

Tags: unix, usability

Цитата #93

"Философия UNIX гласит: Пишите программы, которые делают одну вещь и делают её хорошо; Пишите программы, которые бы работали вместе; Пишите программы, которые бы поддерживали текстовые потоки, поскольку это универсальный интерфейс."

Author: Douglas McIlroy
Tags: unix

Цитата #88

"UNIX никогда не скажет "пожалуйста"."

Author: Rob Pike
Tags: unix, usability

Цитата #71

"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."

Author: Rob Pike
Tags: unix

Цитата #70

"Those who do not understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."

Author: Henry Spencer
Tags: unix

Цитата #62

"Философия Linux говорит: "Смейся перед лицом опасности!". Ой. Не правильно. "Сделай это сам!" Да, теперь похоже."

Author: Linus Benedict Torvalds
Tags: linux, unix

Цитата #57

"UNIX прост, но надо быть гением, чтобы понять его простоту."

Author: Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
Tags: unix

Цитата #55

"UNIX не был разработан так, чтобы отгораживать своих пользователей от глупостей, поскольку это отгородило бы их от делания умных вещей."

Author: Doug Gwyn
Tags: unix