Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
More Quotes from 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
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
Likewise, C managed to escape its original close ties with Unix as a useful tool for writing applications in different environments.
Dennis Ritchie
As a general phenomenon, I think they're great, but they suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary ones did and do.
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Work & Career QuotesBased on Keywords: ken, thompson
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
John B. S. Haldane
For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.
Michael Shanks