Devices Quotes · Page 8

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

— Henry Louis Gates

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

— Gerard Cox

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.

— Tom Peters

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

— Nils John Nilsson

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?

— Steve Garfield

Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created.

— Tim Cook

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

— Ray Kurzweil

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

— Lisa Gansky

You're clothes without material, leaves without a tree, devices without power, a galaxy without planets are stars or anything, a keyboard without…

— Jazzy

I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox.…

— Dee Bradley Baker

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in…

— Seth Lloyd

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

— Stef Penney

Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that…

— Tim Hecker

To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of…

— Joseph Kastein

“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.…

— Ronald D. Moore

We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the…

— Anonymous

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking…

— Thomas Kuhn

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to…

— A. J. Liebling

As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of…

— Don DeLillo

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the…

— Damon Knight

The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in…

— Chelsea Handler

The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,…

— Rem Koolhaas

We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of…

— Pete Docter

I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely…

— Anonymous

We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where…

— Jason Silva

If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.

— Don Mattrick

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

— Alex Chiu

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

— Simon Heffer

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

— William Graham Sumner

We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006,

— Jorma Ollila

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

— Donald A. Norman

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

— P. J. O'Rourke