Operating System Quotes

47 quotes by 35 authors

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
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
We will never make a 32-bit operating system. — Bill Gates
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
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
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
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin wonâ€™t… — Peter Thiel
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. — Jim Allchin
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. — James L. Barksdale
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
Culture is your operating system. — Terence McKenna
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
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
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
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
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
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation. — Steve Ballmer
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
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
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

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