Hardware Quotes - Page 3

• Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

  Haruki Murakami

  Like Love, Missing, Phases

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2016

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• 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

  People, Cost, Assets

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• I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Batteries

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• 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

  Technology, Community, Software

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• 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

  Life, Intelligent, World

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• 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

  Children, Cutting, Government

  "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• 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

  Data, Skulls, Brain

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• Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Clerks, Use

  "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller". Book by Neal Stephenson, May 1988.

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• Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Faster, Software

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• When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

  Ward Cunningham

  Frustrated, Different, Computer

  "Startup mines for riches in collaboration software". The Portland Tribune, March 4, 2008.

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• 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

  Taken, Sides, Insight

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Wine, Oxygen

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• Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Running, Reality, Trying

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• 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

  Technology, Achievement, Gains

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• There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

  Tom Clancy

  Military, Character, Marine

  Tom Clancy (1996). “Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit”, p.2, Penguin

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• 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

  Believe, Important, Form

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• 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

  Cutting, Half, Window

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• The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer.

  Paul Davies

  Nature, Science, Views

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Taken, Cutting

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

  Hosain Rahman

  Problem, Solve, Users

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• You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.

  Hosain Rahman

  Trying, Helping, Thesis

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• It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

  Hosain Rahman

  Emotional, Connections, Levels

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• 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 to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

  Patricia Churchland

  Understanding, Brain, Mind

  "Morality and the Brain". brainworldmagazine.com. January 24, 2014.

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• Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.

  Hosain Rahman

  Thinking, Doe, World

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• You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.

  Hosain Rahman

  Littles, Phds, Like You

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