Devices Quotes

• My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Communication
  • Really
  • Because

• There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Virtue
  • Economy
  • Industry

• 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

• Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Ballerinas

• 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

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

  

  Gerard Cox
  • Intellectual
  • Concepts
  • Devices

• This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

  

  Stephen Elop
  • Battle
  • Devices
  • Ecosystems

• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Emotions
  • Devices
  • Rhyme

• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Produce
  • Afghanistan
  • Landmines

• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Enemy

• 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

• I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Creating
  • Theatrical

• We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

  

  Monica Edwards
  • Technology
  • Devices
  • Electronic

• I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Devices
  • Product category

• Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Devices
  • Plot
  • Blair

• One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

  

  Charles E. Allen
  • Terrorism
  • Concern
  • Materials

• It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Evil
  • Existence
  • Deny

• With Emotion AI, we can inject humanity back into our connections, enabling not only our devices to better understand us, but fostering a stronger connection between us as individuals.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Better
  • Connection
  • Emotion

• Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Habit
  • Discover
  • Suffer

• Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Civilization
  • Devices
  • Enormous

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