A Quote by Neal Stephenson

Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.

Neal Stephenson

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Neal Stephenson
American - Writer
Born: October 31, 1959

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

Elizabeth Moon

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Marlene Dietrich

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

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

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Steven Wright

At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.

Nick Woodman

The thing is, the better the hardware, the more time we spend to improve the visuals to take advantage of the hardware.

David Cage

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

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

Steven Wright

Typical tech-driven companies or hardware-driven companies always lay out the so-called roadmaps when it comes to making the new hardware. So, in other words, availability of certain technologies dictates when the company is intending to make the new hardware.

Satoru Iwata

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

Renee James

Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.

Om Malik

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

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

James Badge Dale

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

David Crane

I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good.

Steve Ballmer

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