Devices Quotes

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Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things… — Leonardo da Vinci
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,… — Elwyn Brooks White
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you… — John Dykstra
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the… — Roger Ebert
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a… — Robert Orben
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. — Woodrow Wilson
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made… — Norbert Wiener
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and… — E. O. Wilson
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver… — Guglielmo Marconi
Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just… — Rajneesh
Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere… — Mark Zuckerberg
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. — Vladimir Lenin
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it… — Brother Lawrence
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. — William Shakespeare

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