Device Quotes
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
Alexandre Dumas -
Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
Alice Fulton
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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
Washington Allston -
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
David Langford -
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton -
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 -
It could be something like Scotch Tape, where you just roll it out and stick in on the back of your device and go.
Angela Belcher -
It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
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So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.
Steve Jobs -
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.
Rana el Kaliouby -
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!
Alex Toth -
In Virginia Woolf I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
Haskell Wexler -
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
Edward John Carnell
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A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.
Evan Esar -
He happens to have a device in his chest, but he still has a lot of heart.
Andrea Brown -
At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.
Edmund Crispin -
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
George McWhirter -
Skin is a multilayered, multipurpose organ that shifts from thick to thin, tight to loose, lubricated to dry, across the landscape of the body. Skin, a knowledge-gathering device, responds to heat and cold, pleasure and pain. It lacks definitive boundaries, flowing continuously from the exposed surfaces of the body to its internal cavities. It is both living and dead, a self-repairing, self-replacing material whose exterior is senseless and inert while its inner layers are flush with nerves, glands, and capillaries.
Ellen Lupton -
Whatever device you use... Windows will be there. … Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.
Steve Ballmer
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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
Bill Gates -
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
Ezra Taft Benson -
It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.
Esther Dyson -
Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.
Elena Ferrante