Command Line Interface Quotes

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

Blame me for having to type the backslash in DOS.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.