There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. — Bill Gates 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
What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games.… — Ryan C. Gordon 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
In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come… — Dave Cutler Copy Share Image
My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers.… — Dave Cutler 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
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a… — Dave Cutler Copy Share Image
You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath… — Terence McKenna 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
We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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