Hardware Quotes

• Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  Ken Olsen

  Heaven, Computer, Software

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Machines, Computer, Software

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• Hardware works best when it matters the least.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Literature, Matter

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• 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

  Good Day, Design, Feel Good

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• People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, People, Serious

  Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.

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• 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

  Technology, People, Computer

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.43, Rodale

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• Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Doe, Intimidation, Intimidating

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• The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

  Kin Hubbard

  Home, Coming Out, Stores

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• With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

  Trip Hawkins

  Generations, Next, Rendering

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• 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

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Running, Real, Worry

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• 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

  Morning, Truck, Clock

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• 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

  Balance, Information, Process

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• 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

  Looks, Vietnam, Littles

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• Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

  Andy Rooney

  Witty, Work, Technology

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• 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

  Kids, Play, Feet

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• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  Adam Osborne

  Machines, Software, Stills

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• Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

  Pat Metheny

  Soul, Spirit, Conception

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• We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

  Saddam Hussein

  War, Army, Hussein

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Country, Media, Anarchy

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

  Alan Perlis

  Mean, Machines, Fit

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• 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

  Oil, Pay, Sauce

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• 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

  Blow, Glasses, Taught

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• 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

  Writing, Should Have, Ideas

  "MMIX 2009 a RISC computer for the third millennium". www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.

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