Devices Quotes

644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors

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 — Unknown Author
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put… — Ian Bogost
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
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader… — Constance Hale
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
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
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to… — Peter Greenaway
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
Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then,… — Jacque Fresco

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