Devices Quotes

644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. — Antony Jay
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. — Andrew Coyle Bradley
I think Apple is a great device company. — Jeffrey Bewkes
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. — Marco Arment
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion… — Steven Chu
I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone,… — Alexis Denisof
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to… — Dorothy E. Denning
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. — Ken Auletta
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp… — David Gilmour
In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected,… — Emilio Estevez
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption. — Ray Davies
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into… — Stephen Jay Gould
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep… — Mark Feuerstein
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects… — Drew Houston
I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was… — Dhani Harrison
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device. — Frank Zappa
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to… — Charles Petzold
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices… — Charles Petzold
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. — Dick Cavett
The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when… — Howard Dean

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