Devices Quotes · Page 7

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

— Dick Cavett

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

— Paul Johnson

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

— Nikola Tesla

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

— Lord Byron

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

— Peter De Vries

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

— Martin Rees

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

— Frank Zappa

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

— Joey Lauren Adams

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own…

— Claire Danes

From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and…

— Charlie Brooker

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

— David Bowie

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

— Geoff Mulgan

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

— Julia Cameron

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from…

— Douglas Adams

What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy -…

— Alex Gibney

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The inspectors also found Iraq had developed effective means for dispersing these materials: unmanned aerial vehicles, spray devices, special munitions. We don't…

— Richard Armitage

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone.…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my…

— Nikola Tesla

But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work…

— Phillip E. Johnson

I'm excited about mobile; clearly that's important. Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are…

— Mitchell Baker

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and…

— Thomas Sowell

I'm starting to believe that part of the solution regarding the devices is that they have a role to play in engaging…

— Gerry Lopez

How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written…

— Marvin Minsky

The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means…

— Anonymous

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth…

— Steven Chu

Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's…

— Satya Nadella

Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off…

— Robert Novak

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

— Kary Mullis

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

— Jill Lepore

When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device

— Mike Parry

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

— Merrill McPeak

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

— Alexandra Byrne

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

— Thomas Sowell

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world.

— Pranav Mistry