Hardware Quotes: Inspiring Words on Gadgets & Technologies

"Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good"

Michael Graves, Architect

"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"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow"

Craig Bruce

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

Alan Kay, Scientist

"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"Hardware works best when it matters the least"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

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

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

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

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

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

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March"

J Allard, Scientist

"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

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

J Allard, Scientist

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

Adam Osborne, Author

"I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine"

Steven Levy, Journalist

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

Pat Metheny, Musician

"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"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools"

Mike Davidson

"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, Scientist

"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"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 also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist