Bureaucrat Quote by Bill Gates

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

— Bill Gates

“You can't get a personal computer to work without Windows (this is under the assumption you can actually get Windows to work).”

— Steven B. Green

The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.

— Virginia Postrel

“There’s a difference between serving the system and enabling it.”

— wildbow

In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and…

— Dave Cutler

“But you’re not that smart, I mean, your species is responsible for Windows Vista.” “Vist- that was a long time ago!” “It’s still an…

— Craig Alanson

“Running on the subconscious operating system is never ideal.”

— Steven Redhead

“If you could do this all the time without the system, you wouldn’t need the system.”

— Harry Lorayne

“This is the reality of operating complex systems; no single person can see the whole system and understand how all the pieces fit together.”

— Gene Kim

“Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.”

— Ben Horowitz

“Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power.”

— Akshat Paul

“In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.”

— Andrew S. Grove