The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

- Douglas Mcilroy

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

- Douglas Mcilroy

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text stream…

- Douglas Mcilroy

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

- Douglas Mcilroy

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

- Douglas Mcilroy