I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I suggested that someone grab Bill Gates and get him to install a new operating system, but apparently he's not a demon"… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system.… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The founding fathers were great entrepreneurs. They shipped something akin to a software product: the first version of the 'ideological operating system'… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“My statement is thus that we can only end this downfall of European intergovernmental decision-making by eliminating the intergovernmental operating system completely,… — Leo Klinkers Copy Share Image
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application,… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in,… — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“Jobs would soon pit the iPod team against a Mac software team to refine and produce a product that was more specifically… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“Vernor Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky, describes a spacefaring trading civilization tens of thousands of years (hundreds of gigaseconds) in… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke.… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
“The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“As with other kinds of markets, popular operating systems quickly get more and more popular, as they attract both new buyers and… — Alvin E. Roth Copy Share Image
“The Artificial Intelligence. This is another term for the Archontic hive mind. It is a binary operating system that imitates the many… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work… — Paul Ford Copy Share Image
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. — Jim Allchin Copy Share Image
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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