Top 303 Hardware Quotes & Sayings

I particularly love watching 'Hardware' with a young audience.

People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.

Technology is changing so fast that investment in hardware is getting riskier everyday. On the other hand, whether it is traditional computers or smart gadgets which are part of the convergence technologies of the future, some planning of hardware needs is still important.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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.

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.

Software is more important than hardware.

We try to continually push ourselves to do more and more, not just on the hardware side but also in terms of developers' tools so they can take advantage of the hardware that's there, in the best way.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

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.

If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

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

We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.

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

It wasn't until the Apple Macintosh that people understood what true hardware-software integration was about. It took one company to line it up: low-cost hardware, cool graphics, third-party products built on top of it, in an all-in-one attractive package that was accessible to consumer marketing.

We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

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.

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

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

If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

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

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

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

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

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

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.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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.

Samsung and Apple seem to think that they're going to provide everything. Apple believes services will drive hardware, while Google wants to own each user regardless of hardware, so you have differing philosophies.

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

Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.

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.