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A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet…

— Satya Nadella

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity…

— Satya Nadella

A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner…

— Werner Vogels

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

— Lloyd Dobens

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

— Anonymous

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

— Ellen Ullman

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

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

— Bill Gates

Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users,…

— Geoffrey Moore