Came Quote by Paul Hawken

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to…

— Bruce Sterling

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

— Tom Christiansen

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines,…

— Michael Swanwick

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

— Donald Knuth

Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity…

— Dave Cutler

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a…

— Douglas Adams

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

— Bill Joy