Hardware Quotes

116 quotes by 103 authors

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and… — L. Neil Smith
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
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
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, youâ€™re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our… — Sergey Brin
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… — Robert B. Laughlin
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come… — Patricia Churchland
I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware. — Ted Nugent
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. — Niklaus Wirth
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… — Donald Knuth
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… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to… — Nathan Myhrvold
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of… — Linus Torvalds
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry… — Studs Terkel
For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and third-party publishers are… — Reggie Fils-Aime
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there… — Jerry Pournelle
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… — Niklaus Wirth
Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it. — Dave Barry
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much,… — Jack Handey

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