"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow"
- Craig Bruce
About this Quote
This quote by Craig Bruce is describing the importance of software and hardware in computing. Hardware is the physical components of a computer, such as the processor, memory, and storage. Software is the instructions that inform the hardware what to do. Hardware is what makes a computer system quickly, as it is responsible for the speed of the device. Software application, on the other hand, can decrease a computer system if it is not optimized or if it is running a lot of processes at the same time. This quote is stressing the importance of both software and hardware in computing, as hardware is responsible for the speed of the maker, while software application can slow it down if not optimized correctly. Therefore, it is important to ensure that both software and hardware depend on date and enhanced in order to get the very best performance out of a computer system.
This quote is written / told by Craig Bruce somewhere between November 22, 1963 and today. He was a famous author from Australia, the quote is categorized under the topic Computers. The author also have 43 other quotes.
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"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software"
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"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof"
"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"