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Operating Systems Quotes

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.' Guy Kawasaki
There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. Steve Jobs
I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems. Aung San Suu Kyi
Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam. Neil Gaiman
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. Kevin Mitnick
Bill Gates quote: "There's no magic line between an application and an operating..."
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. Bill Gates
David Ogden Stiers quote: "In television you go in with this operating system that it is..."
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. David Ogden Stiers
Neal Stephenson quote: "It is the fate of operating systems to become free."
It is the fate of operating systems to become free. Neal Stephenson
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. Steve Wozniak
Linus Torvalds quote: "In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at..."
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds quote: "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating..."
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. Linus Torvalds
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? Jamie Zawinski
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. Jamie Zawinski
Larry Wall quote: "I think operating systems work best if they're free and open...."
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. Larry Wall
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. Lawrence Lessig

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