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“As with other kinds of markets, popular operating systems quickly get more and more popular, as they attract both new buyers and new sellers.…

— Alvin E. Roth

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

— Charles Petzold

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

— Neal Stephenson

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

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

— Steve Ballmer

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

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…

— Bill Gates

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

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

— Milton Friedman

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

— Bill Gates

“Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.”

— Ben Horowitz

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want…

— Roberta Williams