Definition of Hardware

Hardware

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

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Hardware Quotations

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

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

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

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

Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Norman Ralph Augustine

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
Jay Weatherill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Ken Olsen

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

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

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

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

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.
Aida Turturro

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.
Lincoln Davis

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

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

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

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

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Hardware Translations

hardware in Norwegian is jernvarer, maskinvare

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