Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding. — Jacques LeBlanc
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I… — Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially… — Lawrence Lessig
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. — Baltasar Gracian
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. — Doug Larson
What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped… — Dave Barry
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything — Aldous Huxley
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch… — Alan Cranston
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane… — Sam Ewing
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to… — Alex Toth
Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded — Giuseppe Levi
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a… — Sherry Turkle
Work is the only device I know of. — Truman Capote
Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented… — Barack Obama
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be… — John Steinbeck
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our… — John Stott
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. — Ray Dalio

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