It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Bruce
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
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
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. — Marshall McLuhan
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. — Marlene Dietrich
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
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods. — Mark Weiser
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — Wernher Von Braun
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. — Colin Greenwood
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. — Steve Wozniak
Short Hardware Quotes
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. — Kin Hubbard
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought. — Saddam Hussein
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. — Pat Metheny
I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning. — Fuzzy Zoeller
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system. — Seymour Cray
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. — Niklaus Wirth
My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power. — Hideo Kojima
Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap. — Karl Lehenbauer
Hardware Image Quotes
Computer Hardware Quotes
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
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
We're making gigantic improvements from hardware 3 to 4 to 5. There's a potentially interesting play where Teslas are not in use in the future, that the in car computer can do generalized AI tasks. Can ran a GPT 4 or something like that — Elon Musk
Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't. — William Gibson
There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts. — Kedar Joshi
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
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. — Jeff Pesis
The Next Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe. — Anonymous
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. — Arthur C. Clarke
Hardware Store Quotes
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
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. — Alexei Sayle
I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again. — Steven Wright
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
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
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
George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint. — David Letterman
Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. — Robert Wieder
I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store. — Aida Turturro
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. — Elizabeth Moon
Equipment Quotes
Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you! — Ruby Bridges
Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. — Max Lucado
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! — Catherine Booth
It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record. — Dr. Dre
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. — Chuck Yeager
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. — Carl Levin
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. — Chiang Kai-shek
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. — Uta Hagen
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
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
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
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into. — Trip Hawkins
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
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
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
In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information — Max Tegmark
Life 1.0: life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed. You and I, on the other hand, are examples of Life 2.0: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed. By your software, I mean all the algorithms and knowledge that you use to process the information from your senses and decide what to do—everything from the ability to recognize your friends when you see them to your ability to walk, read, write, calculate, sing and tell jokes. — Max Tegmark
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. — Alan Perlis
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
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
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men. — Valentina Tereshkova
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
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
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away. — Wernher Von Braun
Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. — Amby Burfoot
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
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power. — Sergey Brin
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
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
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