Michael Arrington Quotes

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

I built computers and stuff when I was a teenager and whatever.

Without having to ask anyone's permission, innovators everywhere used the Internet's open platform to start companies that have transformed how billions of people live and work.

I invented the Internet.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

We can build a better product than Linux.

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer.