There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. — Larry Wall 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 think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. — Linus Torvalds 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
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
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses… — Bill Gates 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
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that… — Jamie Zawinski 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
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't… — 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
The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded… — Jeffrey Kluger 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
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
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
Microsoft had captured control over the operating system. And the reason it was able to maintain that dominance is because there was… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and… — Richard Pascale 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
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a… — Nicholas Negroponte 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
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990. — Arkady Volozh 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
“Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age. — Jean-Louis Gassee Copy Share Image
