Device Quotes - page 2

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest. (Upton Sinclair)
Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people. View quote
Mark Shuttleworth
Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga? View quote
Cassandra Clare
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ... View quote
Marianne Moore
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. View quote
Dudley Moore
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life. View quote
Marlon Brando
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful, it is marvelously ineffable. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge. View quote
Thomas Sowell
A book is a device to ignite the imagination. View quote
Alan Bennett
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters. (Elbert Hubbard)
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values. View quote
Leo Strauss
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. View quote
Nikola Tesla
I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems. View quote
John D. Carmack
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future. View quote
J. C. R. Licklider
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual-even a one-word manual-then it is a failure, poorly designed. View quote
Donald Norman
In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers. View quote
Donald Norman
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself. View quote
Donald Norman
The "brightness” of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions. (Paul Goodman)
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. View quote
Regina Brett
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. View quote
Helen Fisher
..the point of a randomizing device like a coin flip, [is] to make the result uncontrollable by making it sensitive to so many variables that no feasible, finite list of conditions can be singled out as the cause. View quote
Daniel Dennett
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism. View quote
John Randolph Price