Devices Quotes - Page 13

• Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around it, and those people who learn how to navigate better in that space are finding that they have better access to information about jobs and education and all the good things that our society produces.

  William E. Kennard

  Jobs, America, Space

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  Gabe Newell

  Dog, Australia, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

  Myron Tribus

  Engineering, Design, Process

  Myron Tribus (2016). “Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs: Pergamon Unified Engineering Series”, p.15, Elsevier

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

  George Will

  Struggle, Government, Iraq

  4 Copy quote

• Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.

  Tim Hecker

  Guitar, People, Focus

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Issues, Phones, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Nonfiction, Technique, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Mental Illness, Film, Heavy

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Smart, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Cloning, Invention, Right Now

  "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.

  Steve Ballmer

  Xbox, Thinking, Clouds

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).

  Philip Kitcher

  Perspective, Different, Narrative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

  Tristan Perich

  Kind, Computer, Certain

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

  Beck

  Technology, Tools, Use

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

  Kode9

  War, Hot, Cold

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

  John Darnielle

  Kind, Hermits, Driveway

  Source: pitchfork.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Children, Keys

  "Snooper's charter would set bad example to the world, says SNP" by Rowena Mason and Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2016.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.

  Catherine Wilson

  Hurt, People, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

  Nils John Nilsson

  Past, Machines, Action

  7 Copy quote

• The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.

  John C. Dvorak

  Technology, Data, Succeed

  "The Looming Cable Modem Fiasco". PC Magazine, September 12, 1995.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

  Claud Cockburn

  Philosophical, Speaks Out, Wind

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Kindness, Past, Guests

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.

  Matthew Henry

  Spiritual, Art, Men

  9 Copy quote

• The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

  Edward Jenks

  Country, Order, Land

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source