Operating Systems Quotes - Page 2

• Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, People, Grace

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• Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Needs, Warning

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• In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Television

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Meaningful, Differences, Personality

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• 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

  Doe, Use, Corny

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• 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 has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Opportunity, Important

  "Bill Gates: A Biography". Book by Michael B. Becraft, 2014.

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• 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

  Microsoft, Reason Why, Building

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• 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

  Space, Able, Enough

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Awful

  "Q&A With Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz". Interview with Natalie Wynne Pace, www.forbes.com. February 13, 2004.

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• EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

  Peter Thiel

  Business, Learning, Zuckerberg

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Ideas, Apples

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

  Dave Cutler

  Opportunity, Would Be, Littles

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

  Milton Friedman

  Compare, Ideals, No Point

  Source: www.npr.org

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

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• We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Firsts, Integrating

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• I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, Groups, Microsoft

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• You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Clothes, Prejudice

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• My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Real, Silly, Thinking

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• 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

  Running, Fall, Apples

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Gone, Simplify

  "Mac OS X Beta Arrives", abcnews.go.com.

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• I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Cancer, Years, Age

  "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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• 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 make backups of our civilization.

  Bruce Sterling

  Civilization, Would Be, Good Times

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• The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Tasks

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

  Richard Pascale

  Knowledge, Learning, Names

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• Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

  Praveen Kumar

  Running, Flames, Fuel

  Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

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