Devices Quotes - Page 6

• Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, Focus, Competition

  Manifesto by John Maeda, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2008.

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• As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

  Julius Genachowski

  Adoption, Becoming, Problem

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• I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.

  Douglas Huebler

  Differences, People, Choices

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• I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.

  Jack Williamson

  Men, Important, Details

  Jack Williamson (2013). “Darker Than You Think”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Mom, Hate, War

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, People, Networking

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.13, Harper Collins

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

  Stephen Elop

  War, Ecosystems, Battle

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• The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Literary Devices, Essays

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Technique, Thrill

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• The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.

  Alan Cranston

  Military, Holocaust, Environmental

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• If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Order, Credit

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• 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.

  Donald A. Norman

  Communication, Design, Appearance

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction, 2002.

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• Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

  Ray Dalio

  Pain, Way, Limits

  "26-Year-Old Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Has Died" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2013,.

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• SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.

  Phil Taylor

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• Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Bridges, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Important, Together

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• If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.

  Rachel Martin

  Song, Creative, Drones

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Government, Stripes, Growth

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• Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded

  Giuseppe Levi

  Views, Energy, Hours

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• 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

  Negative, Stories, Elements

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• On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

  Sam Ewing

  Stupidity, Flight, Boat

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• PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Exercise, Intellectual, Gentle

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Dark, Night, People

  Anna Deavere Smith (2001). “Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines”, p.134, Random House

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• In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Expression, Silence

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I own with reason: for, if men but knew
  Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong
  By some device unconquered to withstand
  Religions and the menacings of seers.

  Lucretius

  Strong, Men, Would Be

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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