Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The… — Wes Craven
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone… — Larry Ellison
The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service. — Mike Harding
It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just… — Lara Pulver
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture… — Jonathan Hale
Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners. — John Scarne
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 two books on… — Marvin Minsky
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own… — David Gelernter
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged… — Calvin Coolidge
All for one, one for all, that is our device. — Alexandre Dumas
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. — Paul Erdos
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food… — Joanne Harris
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. — Eric Hobsbawm
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 pointing device that… — Steve Jobs
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big… — Steve Jobs
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use.… — Steve Jobs
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. — Paul Johnson

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