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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
I’ve done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and that tables, it really was fairly painful. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being – well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. Dennis Ritchie Read Quote
