Not just the opposite of software. Hardware is the stuff you tack on to your computer, and it's the stuff you get at the store to improve your house. It's a printer, it's a doorknob. It can cost hundreds of dollars, it can cost a few cents. It runs our lives now in the form of technology, it ran our lives since we invented the wheel. Women should be careful not to roll their eyes too much when their husbands spend all the time at the hardware store, for if all those hardware stores went out of business, we'd be in a tough spot. No more WD-40, no more nails, etc. Our lives would fall apart!