Dennis Ritchie

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

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. ”

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. ”

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. ”

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. ”

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. ”