Long run Quote by Brendan Gregg

“Given two technologies, the one that’s easier to obtain, configure, and use will usually be the one that wins. Convenience trumps features  —  even…

— Stephen O’Grady

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

— Larry Wall

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

— Margaret Atwood

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity…

— Satya Nadella

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

— Dennis Ritchie

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the…

— Larry Tesler

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people…

— James Gosling

“Indeed, the cost-performance ratio of the product will depend most heavily on the implementer, just as ease of use depends most heavily on the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

— Douglas Crockford

At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the…

— Steve Ballmer

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

— Bruce Tognazzini