A Quote by Karl Lehenbauer

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

Karl Lehenbauer

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Cheap Expensive Hardware Programmers

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Karl Lehenbauer
Born: April 5, 1958

When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).

Richard E. Pattis

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

Karl Lagerfeld

It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.

Alexander Chee

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

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

Vivienne Westwood

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.

Bill Joy

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

Jeremy Clarkson

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Nikki Giovanni

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

Daniel H. Pink

Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

Janet Morris

When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

Brendan Iribe

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

Jaume Collet-Serra

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Robert Kiyosaki

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.