“I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.”

— Linus Torvalds

[linux.conf.au conference, http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/torvalds-pans-apples-os-x/2008/02/05/1202090393959.html, 2008-02-05]
2000s, 2008

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to …" by Linus Torvalds?

Linus Torvalds 150

Finnish-American software engineer and hacker 1969

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (1953) American software engineer

Source: Object-oriented design: a responsibility-driven approach (1989), p. 13

“You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.”

David Pogue (1963) Technology writer, journalist and commentator

" Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/personaltech/13pogue-email.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin," The New York Times, March 13, 2008.

“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.”

Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944) Dutch computer scientist

In a Usenet message, 3 Feb 1992.
The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate

“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

OS/2 Programmers Guide, November 1987
1980s

“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."”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Post to comp.os.linux.development.apps newsgroup, 1995-03-08, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3jju43%24gc8%40klaava.helsinki.fi,
1990s, 1995-99

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

“The Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, I suspect — windows which face on other worlds than ours:”

James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest

Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 40 : Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
Context: The Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, I suspect — windows which face on other worlds than ours: and They permit this-or-that man to peer out fleetingly, perhaps, just for the joke's sake; since always They humorously contrive matters so this man shall never be able to convince his fellows of what he has seen or of the fact that he was granted any peep at all. The Wardens without fail arrange what we call — gravely, too — "some natural explanation."