Devices Quotes

644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most… — Nikola Tesla
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human… — Eliot Porter
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all… — Garry Kasparov
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life;… — Clarence Darrow
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. — Sam Smith
Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge. — Unknown Author
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than… — Benjamin Tucker
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
The most popular labor saving device is still money. — Phyllis George
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and… — Victor Hugo
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a… — Anne Lamott
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the… — Thomas Jefferson
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity… — Albert Einstein
There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric… — Steven M. Greer
The fact that the UFOs and UFOnauts use advanced scientific devices and extraordinary powers (reported by many trained and highly qualified witnesses as psychich experiences)… — George Fawcett
Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space ships or satellites… — Donald Keyhoe
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental… — Unknown Author
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. — Unknown Author
We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home,… — Tony Fadell
Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use… — Masahiro Sakurai
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts

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