Hardware Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

  Hideo Kojima

  Desire, Advancement, Stuff

  Source: www.ign.com

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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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• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

  Alan Kay

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Technology

  "A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman in ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

  Vanna Bonta

  Heart, Poetry, Soul

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• Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

  Seymour Cray

  Linux, Tricks

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• 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

  Business, Hair, Cities

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.

  Hosain Rahman

  Dream, Faster

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• I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Stories, World

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• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Inspirational, Funny, Smart

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• No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

  Hosain Rahman

  Should, Ifs

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• You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

  Hosain Rahman

  Trying, Definitions

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• We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

  Hosain Rahman

  Thinking, Trying, Stones

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• The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.

  Hosain Rahman

  Thinking, Needs, Individual

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• The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Important, Creation

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• You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

  Michio Kaku

  Mind, Produce, Mass

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• Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

  Dave Barry

  Beer, Computer, Spills

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Home, Thinking, Creating

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