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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
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. -- James L. Barksdale
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. -- David Ogden Stiers
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities. -- Virginia Postrel
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. -- Dennis Ritchie
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. -- Bill Gates
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. -- Paul Hawken
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
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. -- Richard Stallman
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
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. -- Richard Stallman
The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
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
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. -- Eric S. Raymond
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump. -- Miguel de Icaza
Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens. -- Marc Andreessen
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. -- Marc Andreessen
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
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
It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor. -- Mitch Kapor
The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy. -- Jonathan Zittrain
The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. -- Clayton Christensen
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
If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it's hard to change, like a cryptographic system or an operating system, you're stuck. You will be vulnerable until you invest the time and money to design another system. -- Whitfield Diffie
Culture is your operating system. -- Terence McKenna
We will never make a 32-bit operating system. -- Bill Gates
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation. -- Steve Ballmer
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. -- Tom Christiansen
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. -- Charles Petzold
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history. -- Neal Stephenson
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. -- James L. Barksdale
No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up. -- Bruce Perens
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. -- David Wolfe
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. -- Milton Friedman
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. -- Jim Allchin
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. -- Bill Gates
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990. -- Arkady Volozh
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. -- Jonathan Kozol
You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer. -- Pope Benedict XVI
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
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
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. -- Linus Torvalds
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it. -- Dennis Ritchie
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me. -- Linus Torvalds
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
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
Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth. -- Walter Isaacson
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
I suggested that someone grab Bill Gates and get him to install a new operating system, but apparently he's not a demon" At Reaver's eye roll she nodded. "Right? I was surprised too. -- Larissa Ione
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. -- Jim Barksdale
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. -- Jim Barksdale
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. -- Douglas Rushkoff

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