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Desktop Quotes

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 big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long. Steve Jobs
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. Steve Jobs
What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN'T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That's what he did. James Patterson
'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller. Wesley Morris
There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. Nat Friedman
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. Nat Friedman
Larry Ellison quote: "Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses."
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses. Larry Ellison
I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. Wietse Venema
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week. Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg quote: "Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop."
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. Mark Zuckerberg
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. Eric Liu
Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. Stanley Schmidt
Ted Nelson quote: "Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical..."
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. Ted Nelson
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 from them. Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza quote: "We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE -..."
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. Miguel de Icaza

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