Someone made this comment on Techcrunch and it sums up the impact of Ritchie's work: Without Ritchie, we would not have iOS for the iPhones, the Mac operating

Someone made this comment on Techcrunch and it sums up the impact of Ritchie's work: Without Ritchie, we would not have iOS for the iPhones, the Mac operating system and no basis for Java within the Android phones. No basis for Python and Ruby since they are written in C. Linux stood on the shoulders of Unix, just as Steve Jobs/Apple stood on the shoulder of many giants and this man was one of those giants. We lost a great tech leader. His impact was huge!, as billions of dollars was made releasing products that benefit from his work but he wasn't a billionaire, but impact is more than money.