1.
All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
Linus Torvalds
2.
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
Milton Friedman
3.
We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
Bill Gates
4.
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
5.
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmer
7.
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
Jim Allchin
8.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
David Ogden Stiers
9.
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
10.
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
13.
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
David Wolfe
14.
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall
15.
I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.
Linus Torvalds
16.
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.
Charles Petzold
17.
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
Neal Stephenson
18.
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.
Arkady Volozh