Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of… — Cecil Beaton
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. — Ezra Taft Benson
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell… — Bill Bryson
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
"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
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined… — Leland Stanford
One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. — Charles E. Allen
Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's… — Larry Page
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. — Arthur Helps
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and… — Aaron Koblin
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social… — Brooks Atkinson
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things… — Leonardo da Vinci
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,… — Elwyn Brooks White
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the… — Roger Ebert
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a… — Robert Orben
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. — Woodrow Wilson
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger

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