I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
Unix is back in vogue.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.