Quotes of: Operating-system Keyword

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight a...

John Mica

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

Dasha Zhukova

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

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 sys...

Aung San Suu Kyi

I couldn't use Nest because it doesn't operate with high-end HVAC systems.

Peter Barris

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison

The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.

Virginia Postrel

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Bill Gates

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the prob...

The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

Paul Hawken

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

Jim Barksdale

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

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Larry Wall

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Carly Fiorina

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

Geoff Mulgan

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

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

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Eliezer Yudkowsky