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Arno Penzias ( bivši voditelj Bell Labs i dobitnik Nobelove nagrade):
“Money and sex, storage and bandwidth; only too much is ever enough.”
Bill Gates:
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
“If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?”
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”
“You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.”
Steve Jobs:
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Linus Torvalds (developer Linux kernela):
“A consumer doesn’t take anything away: he doesn’t actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.”
“Any program is only as good as it is useful.”
“I don’t try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don’t really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.”
“I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don’t find anything technically interesting there.”
“I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.”
“I’ve never regretted not making Linux shareware. I really don’t like the pay for use binary shareware programs.”
“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.”
“In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.”
“In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.”
“Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did.”
“Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”
“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”
“Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
“The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too, that has always been an important part of Linux.”
“There are lots of Linux users who don’t care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.”
“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.”"
“You won’t get sued for anticompetitive behavior.”
Dennis Ritchie (Američki kompjuterski znanstvenik):
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
Ken Thompson (kompjuterski znanstvenik):
“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.”
Steve Wozniak (Američki kompjuterski inženjer koji je osnovao Apple Computer sa Steve Jobsom):
“But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.”
“Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you’re doing because you believe it’s right.”
“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”
Tags: Bill Gates, Citati, Informatika, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Poznate osobe, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Unix, Windows
