Dennis Ritchie Quotes

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

The one thing I've always done is to try not to overcomplicate anything.

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Above all, keep it simple.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.