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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. -- Larry Wall
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
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
Culture is your operating system. -- Terence McKenna
We will never make a 32-bit operating system. -- Bill Gates
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
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. -- Bill Gates
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. -- Bill Gates
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. -- Dennis Ritchie
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems. -- Bill Gates
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
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
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. -- Stewart Alsop
It is the fate of operating systems to become free. -- Neal Stephenson
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 innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun. -- Markus Persson
My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems. -- Kevin Mitnick
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly. -- Michael Arrington
We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it. -- Fred DeLuca
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start. -- Aaron Swartz
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. Because mental energy is a finite quantity. -- Alexa Von Tobel
I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine. -- Michael Arrington
The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence. -- Mikko Hypponen
All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less -- Linus Torvalds
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I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
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
Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems. -- Fritjof Capra
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality. -- David Gelernter

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