When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why… — Doug TenNapel Copy Share Image
I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in… — Wilson Bryan Key Copy Share Image
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just… — John Collison Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and… — Mark Feuerstein Copy Share Image
I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field,… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space… — Donald Keyhoe Copy Share Image
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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