He was father of the C programming language and without him there would be no UNIX. His pioneering work paved the way for many modern programming / scripting languages like Objective-C, C#, Perl, Java, Go, JavaScript and PHP. Entire operating systems are written in C or build upon the UNIX legacy, most notably BSD and hence Mac OS X. Farewell, Dennis Ritchie… may you rest in peace.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
The spinning Galaxy in my mug
“Wadi Adad” (Arabic:وادي أضاد), Akakus Mountains, Libya
The name of the big natural statue is Adad or Adhadh, and it means ‘finger’ or...
Near El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Argentina
(by Jordi Brió)