Dennis Ritchie Quotes and Sayings
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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.
- Dennis Ritchie

At least for the people who send me mail about a new
language that they're designing,
the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
- Dennis Ritchie

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
- Dennis Ritchie

The visible things that have come from the group have
been the Plan 9 system and Inferno,
but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
- Dennis Ritchie

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling,
which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
- Dennis Ritchie

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants
to go with C# is too early to tell.
- Dennis Ritchie

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C,
but I bet C will still be around.
- Dennis Ritchie

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

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it,
like many other successful things, has a certain unity
of approach that stems from development in a small group.
- Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.
- Dennis Ritchie

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
- Dennis Ritchie

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and
make scripts to do things.
- Dennis Ritchie

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go,
I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed
under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
- Dennis Ritchie

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.
- Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June,
and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system,
which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
- Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs,
Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11,
but the portability of the whole system was new.
- Dennis Ritchie

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language
definition completely open -
any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages
whose inventors tried to keep tight control,
and consequent ill fate.
- Dennis Ritchie

The kind of programming that C provides will probably
remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage,
but relatively, JavaScript or its variants,
or XML, will continue to become more central.
- Dennis Ritchie

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with
recreating things we or others had already done;
it seems rather derivative intellectually;
is there a dearth of really new ideas?
- Dennis Ritchie

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk

Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud

"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau

To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau

It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau

The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead

And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

My Cup Runneth Over - My Life Is Abundant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra

Repressed anger still is anger, it just isn't expressed.
If you truly have no anger, you are blessed and joyful.
If you have repressed anger, know that you have anger,
you just haven't expressed that anger.
Go ahead, express your anger briefly,
pound pillows, scream, curse.
Then take a deep breath, and get over it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury

If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

I allow life to wash over me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being
a mother and having a family and a home.
- Jessica Lange

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident,
a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
- Judith Viorst

The one thing that kept our family together was the music.
The only thing that our family would share emotionally
was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
- Dennis Wilson

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than
ever for us to watch over them.
Adolescence is not about letting go.
It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
- Ron Taffel

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie