Devices Quotes

644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. — Eric Hobsbawm
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. — Steve Jobs
An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to… — Steve Jobs
So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that… — Steve Jobs
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big… — Steve Jobs
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use.… — Steve Jobs
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. — Paul Johnson
If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB… — Mindy Kaling
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without… — Henry W. Kendall
I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing… — Lisa Kudrow
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for… — Ashton Kutcher
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole… — Anne Lamott
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you… — Jaron Lanier
I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of… — Hugh Laurie
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device. — Tim Berners-Lee
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. — Tim Berners-Lee
I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at,… — Tim Berners-Lee
IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. — Tim Berners-Lee
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing. — Elmore Leonard
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers.… — A J Liebling
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. — John Lydon
A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere.… — Charles C. Mann
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. — Horace Mann
Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society. — Shirley Manson
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. — Margaret Mead

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