“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.” ShouldWritingMindWrittenHarderThese DaysPortability Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.” PeopleIssuesDesignEmotionalKernelPortability Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.” TermTechnologyCommunicationPromiseAspectDigitalConsumptionInkLegibilityPortability Author:Tom Peters
“Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.” ShouldInformationUnderestimatedPortability Author:Tom Peters
“Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.” InspirationalLittlesBookInspirationMotivationalMotivationHumanityLostBitsTechnologyComfortLittle BitTraditionSensualEaseConveniencePortability Author:Chip Kidd
“C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new” DifferentWholeMachinesUnixPortability Author:Dennis Ritchie
“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.” PeopleWritingProgramPortability Author:Linus Torvalds
“It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.” NeedsLooksUseOrderSimpleCome UpScreensDevicesNeed YouTabletsPortability Author:Esther Dyson
“We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.” HigherContinuingRequirementsBatteriesElectronicsFunctionalityPortability Author:David Milne
“We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.” ShouldImportantInformationUniversalComplexesTechniqueExtrasFancyLinkedFacilityGeneralitiesPortabilityInformation Systems Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.” FirstsMovementPerformancesStrategyDataDriversTapeSiteAnd OffLiabilityStorageReliabilityDiskPortability Author:George Arthur Crump
“It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.” SeemsCertainSoftwareUnixPortability Author:Dennis Ritchie
“The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'” PeopleWantReasonPaySpotifyPortability Author:Daniel Ek