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In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
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Television
Crapshoot
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I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
Jim Barksdale /
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie / Computer Scientist
Genius
Simple
Simplicity
Unix
Understand
Basically
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
Jim Allchin /
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One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.
Mark Zuckerberg / Programmer
Chance
Mobile
Ecosystem
Facebook
Major
Regrets
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Shape
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The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
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Bound
Customer
Definition
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates / Investor
Application
Lines
Magic
Should
Bureaucrat
Washington
Draw
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UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.
Ellen Ullman / Author
Mere
Unix
Doing Always Know
Human Being
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I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.
Tim Daly / Voice Actor
Appreciate
Devices
Coming
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Smash
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Windows
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Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.
Arkady Volozh / Entrepreneur
Operating Systems
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Two
Programs
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This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
Paul Hawken / Environmentalist
Civilization
Misplaced
Needs
Came
Set
Instructions
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Seem
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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 / Author
Approach
Ready
Life Your People
Life People Will
Appear
Developed
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Systems
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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 / Activist
Essence
Rigged
Usual
Applications
Delivered
Discourage
However
Installing
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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 /
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Monopoly
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Choice
Full
Direction
Fair
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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 / Inventor
Microsoft
Monopoly
Browser
Came
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Parts
Reasons
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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 / Writer
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Contrary
Ipads
Iphone
People Way More
Apple
Ipad
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Tablet
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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 / Political Activist
Running
Apples
Copyright
Domain
Fall
Macintosh
Public Domain
Software
Term
Unlimited
Apple
By The Time
Effectively
Finally
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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 / Activist
Androids
Common
Different
Linux
Littles
Little
Android
Between
Component
Contains
Indeed
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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 / Consultant
Space
Able
Code
Enough
Type
University
Wanted
Drive
Basically
Compromised
Copied
Hack
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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 / Programmer
Application
Corny
Doe
Use
Basic
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The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Peter Thiel / Entrepreneur
Learning
Company
Copying
Gates
Larry
Mark
Search Engine
Social
Bill
Bill Gates
Them
Engine
Mark Zuckerberg
Network
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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 / Programmer
Linux
Migrate
Next Year
October
Office
Jump
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Suite
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Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.
Ellen Ullman / Author
Computers
Chips
Ran
Software
Closed
Dominated
Environments
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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. I'd say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do.
Richard Stallman / Activist
Essence
Rigged
Usual
Applications
Delivered
Designed
Discourage
Installing
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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 / Burmese Politician
Apples
Computer
Laptops
Two
Years
Apple
Arrest
Fortunately
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Placed
Systems
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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 / Entrepreneur
Guarantees That
Irrelevant
Machines
Operating Systems
Seems
Universe
Array
Becomes
Center
Chip
Guarantee
Happening
Net
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Virtually
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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 / Entrepreneur
Google
Late
Needed
Research
Today
Too Late
Android
Did
Palm
Bought
Criticized
Motion
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They Say
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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 / Programmer
Technology
Different
Hardware
Machines
Different Types
Operating
Operating System
Ritchie
Several
Successfully
Thompson
Types
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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 / Law Professor
Code
Crucial
Legacy
Vendors
Answering
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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 / Writer
Running
Iphone
Laptops
Macintosh
Past
Release
Apple
Capabilities
Eventually
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Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
Douglas Rushkoff / Writer
Running
Occupy Wall Street
Party
Tea Party
Wall
Work Society Government
Unlike
Occupy
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
Daniel H. Pink / Author
Autonomy
Building
Building Blocks
Desire
Direct
Mastery
Purpose
Yearning
Get
Own
Blocks
Businesses
Entirely
Ourselves
Larger
Lives
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Service
Something
System
Than
Urge
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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 / Entrepreneur
Technology
Cia
Contracts
Different
Gaming
Microsoft
Online
Programming
Successful
Tools
Video
Aol
Awful Lot
Came
Companies
Ended
Market
Network
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Oracle
Slightly
System
Technology Companies
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
Walt Mossberg / Journalist
Apps
Awkward
Core
Duplicate
Google
Phones
Premium
Samsung
Software
Android
Apple
Functions
Operating
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Platform
Rival
Runs
Suite
Uses
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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 /
Apps
Clear
Dynamics
Enormous
Gates
Microsoft
Software
Winner
Category
Became
Bill
Bill Gates
Competitor
Controlling
Likely
Operating
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Owning
Partly
Pc
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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 / Writer
Jobs
Running
Computers
Bills
Computer
Gates
Way
Xerox
Assumed
Bill
Bill Gates
Brought
Concept
Created
Rest
Mac
Followed
Saw
Mouse
New Way
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Steve
Suit
Toured
Windows
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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 / Cryptographer
Stuck
Time And Money
Change Time Money
Invest
Depend
Discovered
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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 / Entrepreneur
Notebook
Air
Company
Dell
Hardware
Interaction
Intimate
Reason
Window
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Windows
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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 M. Christensen /
Faster
Integrated
Iphone
Itunes
Organized
Work Music Your
Android
Apple
Download
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Proprietary
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A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.
Gillian Tans /
Broke
Great Idea
Long Time Ago
Time Money Great
Explain
In The End
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