quotes about Devices
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
-- Aimee Mullins -
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
-- Aldous Huxley -
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley -
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None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
-- Anita Borg -
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
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Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
-- Billy WestSource : Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
-- C. F. Powell -
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Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.
-- Catherine McCormackSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
-- David LangfordSource : David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.
-- Donald A. Norman -
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Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
-- Donald A. Norman -
I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.
-- Eben AlexanderSource : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
-- Gene Robinson -
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I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
-- Helen Fisher -
We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006,
-- Jorma Ollila -
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
-- Laura Prepon -
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The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
-- Mike McCueSource : "Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web Soon to Look More Like Magazines". Interview with Robert Hof, www.forbes.com. September 12, 2011.
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
-- Nathaniel Parker -
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
-- Patrick CollisonSource : "How Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2013.
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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
-- Paul Johnson -
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
-- Peter De Vries -
SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.
-- Phil Taylor -
"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.
-- Rajneesh -
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Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
-- Sergei ProkofievSource : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book by Sergei Prokofiev, edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, 1960.
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Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.
-- Stephen Elop -
Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.
-- Steve Ballmer -
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Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created.
-- Tim Cook -
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
-- Vinton Cerf -
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
-- Gerard Cox -
The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.
-- Tod Machover -
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Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
-- Edward John Carnell -
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.
-- Shantanu Narayen -
I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.
-- Harry CohnSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.
-- Lisa GanskySource : "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.
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