Devices Quotes
644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully…
— Gautama Buddha
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All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices,…
— Gautama Buddha
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The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.
— Joe Sabia
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We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody…
— Mick Ebeling
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A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no…
— Unknown Author
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After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly…
— Unknown Author
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Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
— Alice Fulton
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Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus…
— Robert Novak
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The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but…
— Donald A. Norman
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Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air…
— E. O. Wilson
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In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant…
— Ivy Lee
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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language
— Paul Muldoon
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I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape…
— Rod Blagojevich
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Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
— Noam Chomsky
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I’ve been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the…
— Tom Clancy
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Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.
— Stephen Elop
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We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of…
— Tim Cook
Who Wrote These Devices Quotes
514 authors contributed a total of 644 Devices Quotes, led by these top contributors: