Devices Quotes

• Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Sarcasm, Political

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• All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Hard Work, Men, Thinking

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  Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Crazy, Ignorance

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• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Safety

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• Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

  Nathaniel Parker

  Work, May, Graves

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• All for one, one for all, that is our device.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Unity, Three Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas (1878). “The Three Musketeers”, p.74, ebookfreedom

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• Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Effort, Revolution, Social

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1971). “Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, p.60, Manchester University Press

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• The most popular labor saving device is still money.

  Phyllis George

  Money, Memorable, Saving

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• Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

  C. F. Powell

  Views, Window, Breadth

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• Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creative, Important, Tiny

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dirty, Thinking, Nuclear

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• The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

  Vannevar Bush

  Age, Reliability, World

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mixing, Principles, Gum

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• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

  Lewis Mumford

  Success, Science, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.

  David Milne

  Technology, Use, Growing

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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Rhyming, Language

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

  Steve Case

  Playing Games, People, Use

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• Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Teaching, Simple

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

  Donna Tartt

  Lonely, Writing, Mean

  "Author Donna Tartt discusses her literary career and her latest novel, The Little Friend". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.languageisavirus.com. November 5, 2002.

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• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Hype, Age

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• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Crops, Produce

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• Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Hands, Nuclear

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• To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

  Jim Ryun

  Energy, Use, Shipping

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• What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

  Seth Lloyd

  Information, Computer, Significant

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