"Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work."

"I would be pleased to see Haiku flourish, if only because someone chose to do so. Sometimes, you need those kind of e…"

"Haiku is a true eye-opener for me. It shows how a desktop can “just work”. In many aspects this system is exactly add…"

"Thank God that [Apple buying BeOS] didn’t happen, because I hated Apple's management. I couldn’t picture myself in th…"

"BeOS was pretty good, mind you. Positioned as a multimedia platform, BeOS benefited from symmetric multiprocessing, p…"

"If operating systems were judged purely on engineering, BeOS would be remembered as one of the greatest desktop OSs e…"

"The ideal OS for me would be one that had a well-designed GUI that was easy to set up and use, but that included term…"

"You can use rm -rf dir to delete a directory and its contents, but be careful! This is one of the few commands that c…"

"I now run a 15-person company and, in terms of making us productive, our systems are far better than those of any of …"

"A major reason Google’s search engine is so successful is its PageRank algorithm, which assigns a pecking order to We…"