Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use… — Masahiro Sakurai
You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is… — Giovanni Ribisi
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. — Nathaniel Parker
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is… — Carol P. Christ
The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force,… — Sol LeWitt
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of… — Ursula K. Le Guin
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They… — Joseph Kastein
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter
When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device… — Nikola Tesla
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns… — Colin Greenland
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class… — W. E. B. Du Bois
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia
We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody… — Mick Ebeling
A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no… — Nina Berman
Emotion is the best mnemonic device. — Alice Fulton
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but… — Donald A. Norman
Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Iâ€™ve been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the… — Tom Clancy
We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of… — Tim Cook

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