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Hardware works best when it matters the least. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. -- Ken Olsen
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. -- Alan Kay
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into. -- Trip Hawkins
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative. -- Kent Conrad
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. -- Donald Knuth
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. -- J Allard
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. -- Faye Dunaway
Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap. -- Karl Lehenbauer
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. -- Kin Hubbard
Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it. -- Dave Barry
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. -- Marlene Dietrich
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is. -- Dave Barry
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away. -- Wernher von Braun
The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth. -- David A. Clarke, Jr
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge. -- Bruce Schneier
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. -- Craig Bruce
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. -- Craig Bruce
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind. -- Michio Kaku
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. -- Pat Metheny
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought. -- Saddam Hussein
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. -- Adam Osborne
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. -- Barry Schuler
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular. -- Vint Cerf
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. -- Marshall McLuhan
A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet. -- John Hughes
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good -- Michael Graves
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. -- Grace Hopper
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse. -- Kary Mullis
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. -- Robert B. Laughlin
You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp. -- Marguerite Moreau
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere. -- Paul Ryan
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it. -- Stephen Hawking
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. -- Steven Levy
I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.' -- Marissa Mayer
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. -- Eric S. Raymond
Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services. -- Jamais Cascio
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well. -- Bobby Flay
I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know? -- Julian Sands
My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street. -- Gilbert Gottfried
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. -- Douglas Rushkoff
So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services. -- Kevin Rollins
By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point. -- Vint Cerf
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo. -- Seth Shostak
There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. -- Steve Jobs
I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online. -- Nate Berkus
Software is more important than hardware. -- Bill Gates
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. -- Niklaus Wirth
I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. -- Niklaus Wirth
My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power. -- Hideo Kojima
When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket. -- J Allard
I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware. -- Ted Nugent
The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds. -- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think. -- Fred Brooks
Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate. -- Hosain Rahman
I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles. -- Georges St-Pierre
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware. -- Vanna Bonta
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. -- Elizabeth Moon
I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it. -- Marcel Duchamp
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again. -- Steven Wright
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip. -- Sam Altman
I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly. -- James Badge Dale
Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world. -- Wen Jiabao
The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint. -- David Letterman
We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side. -- Roy Niederhoffer
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. -- Alexei Sayle
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm . -- Marcel Duchamp
The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise. -- Theresa May
Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally. -- Tony Fadell
In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you're dead. So accuracy really matters. -- Reid Hoffman
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software. -- Bill Gates
We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. -- Jay Weatherill
Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware. -- Julia Kent
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. -- Henry Petroski
Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software. -- Patricia Churchland
I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates. -- Keyshawn Johnson
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close. -- Chris Espinosa
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.) -- Niklaus Wirth
Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. -- Bill Gates
The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life. -- Yuri Milner
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. -- Craig Venter
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two. -- Andy Warhol
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons. -- Marshall McLuhan
I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam. -- Francis Ford Coppola
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace. -- Lou Gerstner
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea. -- Rick Cook
Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal. -- Hiroshi Yamauchi
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace. -- Lou Gerstner
I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life. -- Oliver Stone
My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. -- David Crane
Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough. -- Stuart J. Russell
It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate. -- Hosain Rahman
I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge. -- Masayoshi Son
Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process. -- Sam Abell
There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea. -- Megan Smith
I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything. -- Gloria Estefan
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime. -- Geoff Mulgan
You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator. -- Christopher Galvin
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology. -- Howard Rheingold
Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate. -- Brian Kernighan
The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade. -- Nathan Myhrvold
There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts. -- Kedar Joshi
The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss. -- Jean-Claude Biver
I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store. -- Aida Turturro
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power. -- Sergey Brin
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue. -- Steve Ballmer
I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you. -- Ibtihaj Muhammad
In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This is a combination of hardware and software that delivers a new media experience. -- Paul Otellini

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