Portability is for canoes.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.

— Daniel Ek

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness -…

— Chip Kidd

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs

— Linus Torvalds

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

— Tom Peters

... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now…

— George Arthur Crump

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the…

— Dennis Ritchie

Consumers and businesses alike value their ability to keep a phone number when changing providers or relocating. This concept is called 'number portability.'

— Ajit Pai

It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability…

— Esther Dyson

Portability should be the default.

— Larry Wall

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

— Dennis Ritchie

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The fear of database portability can lead to avoiding highly effective features just because they are not interchangeable across various database systems.”

— Vlad Mihalcea

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

— David Milne