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.
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
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.
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.
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.
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.
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.