1970s Quote by Ellen Ullman

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could…

— Eric S. Raymond

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

— Bill Gates

For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial…

— David Gelernter

Microsoft had captured control over the operating system. And the reason it was able to maintain that dominance is because there was this what…

— Lina Khan

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for…

— Walt Mossberg

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

— Ingo Molnar

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got…

— Tim O'Reilly

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business…

— Clayton Christensen

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face,…

— Kevin Kelly

It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the…

— Walt Mossberg

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been…

— Rodney Brooks

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

— Virginia Postrel