Hardware Quotes

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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

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

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

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

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

Software is more important than hardware.

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

You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.

I think that 'system think' is a mindset.

You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.