Hardware Quotes

• I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Home, Winning, Might

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• Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Programming, Faster, Software

  "Excel HSC Softw Design&Devel + Cards SG". Book by Geoff Lancaster, 2001.

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• 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

  Stars, War, Independent

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• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Sex, Reading, Computer

  "The Odyssey File". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• 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

  Technology, Different, Machines

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• 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

  Cities, Cobblers, Charity

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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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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• 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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• Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  Ken Olsen

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Doe, Intimidation, Intimidating

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Programmers, Expensive

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