Devices Quotes

• Most of us have grown so blase about computer developments and capabilities — even some that are spectacular — that it is difficult to believe or imagine there was a time when we suffered the noisy, painstakingly slow, electromechanical devices that chomped away on punched cards.

  

  Nicholas Metropolis
  • Devices
  • Grown
  • Developments

• The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

  

  Mike McCue
  • Devices
  • Consumption
  • Superiors

• We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Emotion

• We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Beginning
  • Human
  • Computer

• People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Music
  • Video

• What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Humans
  • Information
  • Computer

• As more and more of our lives become digital, we are fighting a losing battle trying to curb our usage of devices in order to reclaim our emotions. So what I'm trying to do instead is to bring emotions into our technology and make our technologies more responsive.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Battle
  • Become
  • Bring

• TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Products

• Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Art
  • Possess
  • Devices

• I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

  

  Alexandra Byrne
  • Color
  • Storytelling
  • Devices

• Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Labor
  • Complexity
  • Conspiracy

• I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Kind

• It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Sound
  • Individual
  • Experiments

• The demographics long term are extremely promising. All the major industrialized nations are entering their highest user years for health care and medical devices are on the forefront of that.

  

  Bob Higgins
  • Health
  • Demographics
  • Promising

• The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Needs
  • Enjoy
  • Deadline

• 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
  • Relationship
  • Individual
  • Term

• Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.

  

  Burton Malkiel
  • Devices
  • Markets
  • Economists

• If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Leaving

• It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Crisis
  • Scientist
  • Philosopher

• Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

  

  will.i.am
  • Fashion
  • Becoming
  • Devices

• We don't want to just put logos on somebody's devices. It needs to feel like Nokia, what Nokia was known for.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Want
  • Somebody
  • Devices

• Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Order
  • Mechanic
  • Quantum

• I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Wonder
  • Creative
  • Distance

• People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Community
  • Workplace
  • Devices

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