In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using… — Joel Spolsky 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
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you… — Guy Kawasaki 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
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that?… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other… — Jonah Lehrer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly,… — Dave Barry 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
Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower… — Praveen Kumar 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
There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating… — Paul Gigot 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
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
![“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/bill-gates-137_best-way_the-best-way-to-prepare-to-be-a-programm_1602708.jpg)
![“The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/terence-mckenna-287_atmosphere_the-current-operating-system-culture-is_2601815.png)
![“Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You…” quote by Paul Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca0/paul-ford-50002_comes-and-goes_thus-even-as-servers-die-or-are-put-to-s_409754.jpg)
