Operating Systems Quotes

57 quotes by 37 authors

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
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating… — Richard Pascale
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
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be… — Marc Andreessen
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. — Charles Petzold
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. — Tom Christiansen
There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long… — Paul Gigot
The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates… — Dave Barry
We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same… — Steve Jobs
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of… — Nicholas Negroponte
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. — Bill Gates
There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control… — Steve Jobs
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic… — Jeffrey Kluger
I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university… — Kevin Mitnick
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie

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