Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the… — Donald A. Norman
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manualâ€”even a one-word manualâ€”then it is a failure, poorly designed. — Donald A. Norman
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it… — Donald A. Norman
Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start… — Warren Farrell
I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought… — Peter Cundill
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business,… — Henry Hazlitt
Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well. — Martin Cooper
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or… — Barbara Marciniak
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word. — Nancy Duarte
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of… — Daniel Schultz
One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I… — Brad Alan Lewis
A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think… — Michael Scheuer
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I… — Joshua Foer
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to.… — H. L. Mencken
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of… — Thomas Kuhn
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes,… — Stephen Fry
Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created. — Tim Cook
You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to… — Bill Frakes

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