"To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API."

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Source : Charles Petzold (1998). “Programming Windows”, p.35, Pearson Education

Charles Petzold

#Operating Systems Quotes

“Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.”
“For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.”
“We need development in the Northern Territory but we don't need it based on something we might get in five years. We don't need it based on something that someone's done a couple of, they haven't even bothered with the back of the beer coaster.”
“I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.”
“Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.”
“Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.”
“Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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