Devices famous quotes

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
-- Aimee Mullins

#Children #Achieve #Devices

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
-- Aldous Huxley

#Literature #Literary Devices #Devices

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
-- Alice Fulton

#Emotion #Devices

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley

#Convenience #Devices

None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
-- Anita Borg

#Track #Addresses #Devices

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Stories #Shows #Devices

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
-- Billy West

#Wells #Devices

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
-- C. F. Powell

#Views #Window #Devices

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.
-- Catherine McCormack

#Devices

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
-- David Langford

#Technology #Plot #Devices

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
-- Dick Cavett

#Devices #Electronic Devices #Dislike

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.
-- Donald A. Norman

#Simple #Numbers #Devices

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
-- Donald A. Norman

#Mind #Devices #Simplification

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
-- Donald A. Norman

#Information #Devices

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.
-- Eben Alexander

#Brain #Facts #Devices

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
-- Gene Robinson

#Passion #Hard Times #Devices

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
-- Gerry Mulligan

#Mess #Devices #Electronic Devices

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
-- Helen Fisher

#Culture #Adultery #Devices

We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006,
-- Jorma Ollila

#Units #Convergence #Devices

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
-- Laura Prepon

#People #Prison #Devices

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
-- Mike McCue

#Ipads #Devices #Consumption

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
-- Nathaniel Parker

#May #Graves #Devices

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
-- Patrick Collison

#Advertising #Devices #Wells

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Looks #Devices

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
-- Paul Johnson

#Reality #Horror #Devices

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
-- Peter De Vries

#Brain #Ears #Devices

SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.
-- Phil Taylor

#Devices

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.
-- Rajneesh

#Identity #Answers #Devices

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Enemy #Devices

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
-- Sergei Prokofiev

#Music #Imitation #Devices

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.
-- Stephen Elop

#Ecosystems #Share #Devices

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.
-- Steve Ballmer

#Television #Internet #Devices

Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created.
-- Tim Cook

#Apples #Watches #Devices

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Appliances #Wells #Devices

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
-- Gerard Cox

#Intellectual #Mask #Devices

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

#Obvious Things #Wells #Devices

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
-- Edward John Carnell

#Thinking #Used #Devices

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.
-- Shantanu Narayen

#Tablets #Devices #Consumption

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.
-- Harry Cohn

#Judging #Culture #Devices

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.
-- Lisa Gansky

#Information #Irresistible #Devices