Hardware Quotes - Page 6

• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Design, Fleas

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• In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

  Hosain Rahman

  World, Take Your Time, Deliberate

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• 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

  Impact, Important, Window

  "What's this? Picking Bill Gates' brain at Consumer Electronics Show". Interview with Edward C. Baig, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 9, 2008.

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• 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

  Ideas, Giving, Leaving

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• Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application... or discretely as a platform. We think about it across the whole thing.

  Hosain Rahman

  Thinking, Pieces, Platforms

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• 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

  Innovation, Results, Defence

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• I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Cards, Tools, Use

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Sound, Doe, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Trying, Different, Lasts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Psychology, Brain, Mind

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Writing, Simple

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• 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

  Simple, Google, Example

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• I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Able, Assuming, Forbidden

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• Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

  Terence McKenna

  Running, Technique, Example

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• 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

  People, Surprise, Process

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I have a daily call thats 2.5 hrs with the entire team: from materials, sourcing, manufacturing, design, sensor, firmware... mechanical engineering - all together and they all have to sit through each other's updates... but then understand what those tradeoffs are and I sort of force that communication.

  Hosain Rahman

  Team, Communication, Engineering

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• 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

  Kings, Home, Shopping

  "Nate Berkus on Selling His Old Prada, Hermès, and More". Interview with Julie Ma, www.thecut.com. May 16, 2013.

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• 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

  Country, Military, Two

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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

  Team, Names, Usa

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• 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

  Notebook, Air, Window

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.31, Prabhat Prakashan

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• 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

  Girl, Thinking, Weekend

  "Putting a Bolder Face on Google". Interview with Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2009.

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• 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

  Powerful, Computer, Appeals

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Country, Military, Iran

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• 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

  Building, Shots, Software

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