Bases Quote by Miguel de Icaza

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots…

— Linus Torvalds

The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look…

— Havoc Pennington

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together…

— Linus Torvalds

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

— Nat Friedman

We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one…

— Satya Nadella

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

— Stewart Alsop

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very…

— Steve Jobs

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning…

— Miguel de Icaza

“People know how to deal with a desktop intuitively. If you walk into an office, there are papers on the desk. The one on…

— Walter Isaacson

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they…

— Jim Allchin

You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things in the…

— James Gosling

“Answer true or false for the following statements: VDI is easier to manage than traditional desktops. VDI is more secure than traditional desktops. VDI…

— Brian Madden