> Our goals throughout the effort, when articulated at all, have > always concerned themselves with building a comfortable relationship > with the machine and

> Our goals throughout the effort, when articulated at all, have > always concerned themselves with building a comfortable relationship > with the machine and with exploring ideas and inventions in > operating systems. We have not been faced with the need to satisfy > someone else's requirements, and for this freedom we are grateful. > > Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson (1974)