Techhead Quotes.

The beauty of mechanical problems is that they are often visible to the naked and untrained eye. If white smoke is rising from a disk drive, that is probably where the problem lies (unless your disk drive has just elected the new Pope). --- (John Bear)

I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. --- (Larry DeLuca)

Develop for it? I’ll piss on it. [the NeXT Computer] --- (Bill Gates)

The Windows API has done more to retard skill development than anything since COBOL maintenance. --- (Larry O'Brien)

The purpose of the icons, the purpose of the entire OS X look and feel, is to keep the customer happy during that critical period between the time of sale and the time the check clears. --- (Bruce Tognazini)

In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers. --- (Richard Stallman)

Linux is just a file system and a file manager. --- (Steve Ballmer)

UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. --- (Peter Coffin)

When you say: "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say: "Hey, I got those with the system -- for free." --- (Linus Torvalds)

It's not the technology, folks, it's the people. When we trace [the errors] back, it's always human error. --- (Bob Herbold of Microsoft)

Saying that XP is the most stable MS OS is like saying that asparagus is the most articulate vegetable. --- (Dave Barry)

With infrastructure goods, there can be just one. MS-DOS won over the Macintosh OS, and that was that. MS-DOS transitioned to Windows, and the dominance continued. --- (Don Norman)

It's no coincidence that the most popular PC books go by names like "Windows for Dummies". Detroit doesn't sell books like "Oldsmobiles for Idiots" or "A Foul-Up's Guide to Fords". --- (Patrick L Anderson)

Of course, Linus didn't sit down in a vacuum and suddenly type in the Linux source code.... He had my book.... But the code was his. The proof of this is that he messed the design up. --- (Andrew Tanenbaum)

Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. --- (Linus Torvalds)

Unfortunately, perceptions of the Linux community are shaped by Web sites such as www.slashdot.org, where self-styled experts who have the collective IQ of an AOL CD post inflammatory propaganda. --- (Pankaj Chowdhry)

In 1984 mainstream users were choosing VMS over UNIX. Ten years later they are choosing Windows over UNIX. What part of that message aren't you getting? --- (Tom Payne)

The sad and sobering fact is, our current personal computers -- the Macintosh included -- are amazingly fragile nightmare kludges of delicate interactions that only barely work right most of the time. --- (Steve Gibson)

There's a simple way to find out if an operating system has been well designed. When you get an error message, go to the help system and look up the exact words in that message to see if there was enough of a concept of an architecture that they have a consistent vocabulary to talk about what's broken. --- (Bill Joy)