Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

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

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.

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.

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

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

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.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Our Windows 10 experience is super polished, and it integrates all the community features seamlessly with the game experience.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.

It wasn't until the Apple Macintosh that people understood what true hardware-software integration was about. It took one company to line it up: low-cost hardware, cool graphics, third-party products built on top of it, in an all-in-one attractive package that was accessible to consumer marketing.

I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

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?

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.