The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw Copy Share Image
One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable… — Dana Priest Copy Share Image
“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are… — Bob Gill Copy Share Image
We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on… — Charlie Clouser Copy Share Image
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
