Devices Quotes

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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
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. — Jeff Bezos
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
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. — Vinton Cerf
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
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations… — Hugh Shelton
As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure… — Larry Page
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
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner
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
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
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

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