Top 100 Hardware's Quotes
#1. We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.
Satya Nadella
#2. 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
#3. I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#4. Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
Dayton Ward
#5. Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.
Jordan Castillo Price
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn't like apples mixing with oranges - it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores.
Seanan McGuire
#9. I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
Bill Paxton
#10. 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
#11. 'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.
Richard Stanley
#12. 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
#13. The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.
Thomas Dolby
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.
Hideo Kojima
#18. The getup, sort of mad scientist meets Rambo, would have made me smile, except that I believe in showing respect for someone carrying that much hardware.
Karen Chance
#19. It's never good to owe money to a guy with a cellar full of military hardware. Especially not when he rides with an outlaw biker gang.
Craig Schaefer
#20. Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order?
Elle Lothlorien
#21. 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
#22. Okay, here's one. Two years ago we interviewed a man from a small town in Vermont. Great reputation in his community. Owns a chain of highly successful hardware stores in the eastern part of the state.
John Sneeden
#23. There's three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that's affordable and doesn't make people sick, you need an audience that is willing to pay for it, and you need the content.
Chris Milk
#24. We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.
Lincoln Davis
#25. Software is more important than hardware.
Bill Gates
#26. Her computer's fan whirred to life, blowing warm air onto her fingers. Two flame-red slits glowed from the monitor. The speakers boomed. "I lived! I died! I live again!"
Olivie had dealt with blue screens, frozen hourglasses, and even the odd hardware conflict back in the day. This was new.
Choong JayVee
#27. 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
#28. If you don't have content, you don't sell hardware. We need a suite of content of really fun, compelling experiences that aren't just hardcore game-oriented, and when that's good enough, it'll be an easy decision to go to the consumer market.
Brendan Iribe
#29. 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
#30. It's not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago."
Wait: "Yes we do."
"We have the same hardware, but not the same software.
Robin Sloan
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#34. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
Donal Henahan
#35. 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
#36. Okay, our next stop is the hardware store." Marin's lips curved into a hint of a smile. "Yippee. Axes, duct tape, lamp oil, and a shovel, here we come." "It's disturbing how quickly you came up with that shopping list." And that made her grin outright. ~*~
Kate Baray
#37. How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Are you kidding? That's a hardware problem!
Various
#38. 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
#39. Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
#40. A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.
Brendan Iribe
#41. 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
#42. With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Adam Osborne
#43. It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
Pat Metheny
#44. The little logo that sits at the top of the screen of any 'Bluetooth-enabled' hardware () is actually a monogram created from the two runes that represent Harald's initials
Neil Oliver
#45. 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
#46. Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.
Walt Mossberg
#47. Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do less and accomplish more; do nothing and accomplish everything is nature's secret to the miracle of life.
John Douillard
#48. 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
#49. Its agents -- not even
human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's
automation
Vernor Vinge
#50. CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
Barton Gellman
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
Sam Altman
#55. 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
#57. Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.
Dave Barry
#58. 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
#59. You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
Michio Kaku
#60. I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.
Lisa Loeb
#61. The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.
Simon Singh
#62. 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
#63. Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
Marian Keyes
#64. 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
#65. My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years' time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.
William Gibson
#66. I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.
Billy Williams
#67. The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.
Pearl Zhu
#68. I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
Chris Hadfield
#69. Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
Walt Mossberg
#70. 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
#71. To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices.
Steven Magee
#73. 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
#74. To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.
Ronald Wright
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. [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
#78. How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it's a hardware problem.
Laura Griffin
#79. I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult
Dr. Seuss
#80. 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
#81. It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
#82. 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
#83. Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.
Michael Arrington
#84. The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.
Tristram Stuart
#85. Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power.
Akshat Paul
#86. 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
#87. Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store ...
Cherie Colyer
#88. 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
#89. By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
Barry Schuler
#90. What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.
Douglas Rushkoff
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
Marcel Duchamp
#94. 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
#95. Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.
Brendan Iribe
#97. 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
#98. Your business is not hardware. Your business is communications. Your business is access to information.
Michael Crichton
#99. We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.
Henry Samueli
#100. 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
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