Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

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.

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

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.

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.