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

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

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

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

Adequacy is sufficient.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.