What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.


In a 1980 lecture "The Evolution of the UNIX Time-sharing System", as quoted in Christopher Negus, Linux Bible 2010 Edition (2010)

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Dennis Ritchie Quotes

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from...

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from...

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from...

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from...