Operating System Quotes
47 quotes by 35 authors
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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has…
— Bill Gates
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
— Bill Gates
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
— Bill Gates
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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought…
— Steve Wozniak
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By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term…
— Lawrence Lessig
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An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools,…
— Marc Andreessen
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EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t…
— Peter Thiel
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
— Jim Allchin
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I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
— James L. Barksdale
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out…
— Linus Torvalds
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Culture is your operating system.
— Terence McKenna
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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.…
— Terence McKenna
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Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something…
— Jamie Zawinski
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You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can,…
— Mark Hall
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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
— Steve Ballmer
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I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.
— Guy Kawasaki
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I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction…
— James L. Barksdale
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Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's…
— Marc Andreessen
Who Wrote These Operating System Quotes
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