Desktop Quotes - Page 2

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

Linus Torvalds

Taken, Linux, Annoying

"Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds". Q&A session with the audience at the panel at Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi, www.youtube.com. June 14, 2012.

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Bill sees and understands the possibilities of a connected world and has the expertise and the experience to help make it a reality, ... As more and more consumers want to take their connectivity with them beyond the desktop, Bill's vision will be critical in charting the company's future course and delivering on the promise of AOL Anywhere.

Steve Case

Reality, Promise, Vision

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When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

Harold Geneen

Running, Reality, Men

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...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

Massimo Vignelli

Doctors, People, Design

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As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.

Nat Friedman

Hard Work, Writing, People

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...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

Fred Brooks

Running, Strong, Creativity

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It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in, like tumbling down a rabbit hole. Today, there are all-in-one desktops fully equipped with tools pre-built into the operating system, all related to hacking. They are all very powerful tools and free to download.

Michael Demon Calce

Powerful, Tumbling Down, Community

Source: www.macleans.ca

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I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.

Khoi Vinh

Home, Thinking, Years

Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.

Noam Chomsky

Technology, Differences, Decision

Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.

Michael Bierut

Jobs, Real, Years

Source: facingsideways.com

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I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.

Nat Friedman

Fun, Moving, Home

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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

Andy Grove

Mainstream, Decades, Appearing

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Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop.

Chris DiBona

Thinking, China

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Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world

Thomas Friedman

Interesting, World, Innovative

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From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

Matt Mullenweg

Reading, Smartphones, Ipads

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I noticed you the first week. Not just because of how pretty you are, though of course, that played into it. It was the way you lean onto your elbows when you 're listening in class, when something catches your interest. And when you laugh, it's never to get attention, it's just-laughter. The way you obssevively tuck your hair behind your ear on the left side, but let the right side fall down like a screen. And when you 're bored, you tap your foot soundlessly and move your fingers on the desktop like you 're playing an instrument. I wanted to sketch you.

Tammara Webber

Laughter, Moving, Fall

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Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.

David Gelernter

Laptops, Care, Unification

Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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The way I make drawings is just with a desktop Epson C88 printer and they are designed to break, they are really cheap. So I bought a lot of them before it became impossible to find them.

Wade Guyton

Technology, Drawing, Way

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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Steve Jobs

Typewriters, Years, Stanford University

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back.

John Collison

Fall, Home, Successful

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Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Larry Ellison

Inspirational, Goal

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When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

Barry Blitt

Unique, Expression, Cartoon

"Cartoonist Takes On the Sketchiest President Yet". Interview With Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2017.

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