"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"

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

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

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

"Hardware works best when it matters the least"

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

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

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