Quotes About Devices

#1. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

Daniel Goldstein

#2. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch

#3. After three rings the call's picked up on the other end. "Laura Stodgill here, U.S. Department of Anomalous Devices of Unknown Origin. McSpadden, what do you have for me in your vortex of weirdness?

C. Gockel

#4. Pain is not the most important tool in Dominance and submission, yet it is a most worthy tool. Pain breaks down barriers and defences. And for intensifying the orgasm? There are few superior devices a Dom has to achieve such, other than varying degrees of pain.

Nikki Sex

#5. He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his. -Will Herondale

Cassandra Clare

#6. Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

Lech Walesa

#7. Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.

Italo Svevo

#8. The openness of such networked devices reflects our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions between the book and such larger forms as the encyclopedia and the library.

Jay David Bolter

#9. Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

Stephen Elop

#10. None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

Anita Borg

#11. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

Coco J. Ginger

#12. Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Laura Anne Gilman

#13. Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their law was a law of covert devices and legal subterfuges. American law, as Krieger wrote, was a law of Umwege, devious legal pathways.

James Q. Whitman

#14. Mechanism! Everywhere
mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

John Galsworthy

#15. When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

Dana Priest

#16. To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices.

Steven Magee

#17. The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

Vannevar Bush

#18. 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

#19. HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

Otto Hahn

#21. Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Douglas Adams

#22. The Law is hard," said Charlotte, "but it is the Law.

Cassandra Clare

#23. The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

Tod Machover

#24. The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming.

Vint Cerf

#25. 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 and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

Gautama Buddha

#26. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Gentlemen, all the so-called recreational drugs that have come into wide use in the last few decades may be chemical shock devices. I think people are bleaching out their old imprints, and accidentally making new ones, when they think they're just getting high and having fun.

Robert Anton Wilson

#28. According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE

Barbara Seaman

#29. Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.

Eric Schmidt

#30. Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

Lionel Shriver

#31. From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#32. How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Keanu Reeves

#33. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

Melanie Griffith

#34. Words Have The Power To Change Us

Cassandra Clare

#35. The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with little difficulty. The point remains that people do not follow the correct rule, when left to their own devices.

Michael Lewis

#36. Because women never say what they think.

Cassandra Clare

#37. To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization-any kind of civilization-disappears.

Jared Taylor

#38. The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Arthur Kornberg

#39. Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even all three of the devices simultaneously.

Nicholas Carr

#40. Left to their own devices, Valenti and his son Kyle tended to live like a couple of undergrads in some low-rent fraternity house.

Andy Mangels

#41. Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

Howard Rheingold

#42. As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

Julius Genachowski

#43. The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

Don DeLillo

#44. Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently,

Steve Wozniak

#45. The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.

Ray Bottenberg

#46. I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

Hillary Clinton

#47. Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

Kode9

#48. He had tried everything, cutting down (many devices), pipes, cigars, even cold turkey. He had quit once in Rome, for seven hours after breakfast, during the last two of which his (first) wife was begging him to take it up again.

John Berryman

#49. All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee.

David Rose

#50. When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

Claudia Rankine

#51. Left to their own devices, women would stop having sex after they have children. There's no evolutionary need for it. Our brains know it, our body knows it. Who feels sexy during the slog of motherhood, the middle-aged fat roll and the flattening butt?

Maria Semple

#52. As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#53. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.

A.J. Darkholme

#54. There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

David Rose

#55. Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons.

Jojo Moyes

#56. We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our "help" includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and above all to God.

Randy Alcorn

#57. I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

Cassandra Clare

#58. Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

George Herbert

#59. Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them.
Oh, that looks rather like a ... - , Jem began.

Cassandra Clare

#60. I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device ... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle ... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.

Randall L. Stephenson

#61. If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Tori Amos

#62. Each dollar worth of fraud committed using mobile devices costs the scammed merchant $3.34.

Anonymous

#63. It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

Marc Andreessen

#64. Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

Martin Rees

#65. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.

Steven Pinker

#66. She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.

E. M. Forster

#67. In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are.

Keshni Kashyap

#68. It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

Bob Gill

#69. Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion.

Bruce Schneier

#70. Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the app store, and now we know that from publishing.

Jennifer Lee

#71. I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

Andrew Rosenthal

#72. Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

Nicola Sturgeon

#73. There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off - a sign, Shevek thought, either of great faith in human nature, or of great quantities of hot water.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#74. 17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,

Anonymous

#75. Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#76. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

E. M. Forster

#77. We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

Shantanu Narayen

#78. By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Ray Kurzweil

#79. A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Robert A. Heinlein

#80. I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

Lindsay Duncan

#81. With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

Louie Schwartzberg

#82. We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

Wynton Marsalis

#83. Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.

Tim Cook

#84. 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 our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Henry W. Kendall

#85. The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Myron Tribus

#86. I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.

Dee Dee Ramone

#87. Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Robert Kiyosaki

#88. She has been left to her own devices, and those are broken.

David Levithan

#89. The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Jill Lepore

#90. I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Howard Rheingold

#91. It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned.

Donald A. Norman

#92. The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

Lisa Gansky

#93. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

Jody Watley

#94. we suggest going to sleep for a couple of years. Then you can wake up and learn Android programming once Gingerbread devices no longer make up a meaningful share of the market.

Brian Hardy

#95. Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.

Genevieve Bell

#96. It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction.

Astra Taylor

#97. I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? ... Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.

Alan Ayckbourn

#98. 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

#99. The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation.

Eliezer Berkovits

#100. It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Baltasar Gracian