Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.