Portability Quotes

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

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

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

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

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

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.

Portability should be the default.

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.

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.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.

... 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.