Appliances Quotes - Page 3

• Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Rain, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.296, Adam, Stevenson

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• Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Sleep

  1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

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• We have been in contact with our customers, we've been actively talking to them. Our customers are important to us, so we decided to compensate appliance repairs.

  Stephen Watson

  Talking, Important, Contact

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• TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Shifting, Just Being, Tvs

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• Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

  Donald A. Norman

  Technology, Simplicity, Design

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• She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, California, Hollywood

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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• Nurturing and fulfilling, Marsala is a natural fit for the kitchen and dining room – making it ideal for tabletop, small appliances, and linens throughout the home.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Home, Kitchen, Dining

  "Pantone Reveals Color of the Year for 2015: PANTONE 18-1438 Marsala". www.pantone.com. December 4, 2014.

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• No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Sky, Sunrise

  "Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on, and we can't really count on it very much.

  Scott Bradfield

  Promise, Energy, Body

  Scott Bradfield (1989). “The History of Luminous Motion”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Receiving, Delay

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Culture, Danger, Periods

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.214, Courier Corporation

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• If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

  Bill Gates

  Creating, Design, Competition

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• I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Law, Civilization

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

  Gary Mule Deer

  Television, Watches, Proven

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• Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?

  Millard Drexler

  Past, Years, Done

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• I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, White, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.

  Joseph Lovering

  Science, Law, Mind

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Food, Home, Air

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• You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Mistake

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can't be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn't happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Rain, Ozone

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• In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.

  Donald A. Norman

  Home, Office, Marketing

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, p. 216, 1988.

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• [The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

  Trip Hawkins

  Way, Historic, Printing

  "Newsweek Catches On to PS2". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 28, 2000.

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• Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix...I would study the curls in the mirror, impressed with both the appliance and my newfound ability to use it. Then, without fail, at the last second before leaving for school, I would ask myself, "Am I supposed to brush it out or leave it?" Why could I never remember" That feeling of "I'm pretty sure this next step is wrong, but I'm just gonna do it anyway" is part of the same set of instincts that makes me such a great cook.

  Tina Fey

  School, Mirrors, Feelings

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