Devices Quotes

644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors

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
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. — Monica Edwards
You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? — Steve Garfield
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise… — Hans Arp
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking… — Newton N. Minow
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either… — Herbert York
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances… — Unknown Author
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training… — Midge Decter
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes

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