Devices Quotes - Page 13

• We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

  Tony Fadell

  Home, Thoughtful, Simple

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• Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use for an extended period of time is a joystick. It's posing problems when I'm test-playing something in progress.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Tired, Progress, Use

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

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• Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.

  Sven Birkerts

  Spring, Communication, Reading

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• Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

  Barbara Kruger

  Differences, Doubt, Belief

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• With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great deal of pleasure from watching the sun rise and set, admiring clouds as they change shape across the sky, watching tree leaves and blossoms undulate in the breeze....these treats foment an ocular-cleansing refreshment to my way of thinking.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Clouds, Sky

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 4, 2014.

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• If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

  Aimee Mullins

  Children, Achieve, Left

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• You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Interview: Giovanni Ribisi on 'Middle Men'". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.mtv.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

  Billy West

  Wells, Happens, Vocal

  Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.

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• To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization-any kind of civilization-disappears.

  Jared Taylor

  Race, Civilization, Doe

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• And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

  K. W. Jeter

  Heart, Thinking, Numbers

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• The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

  Patricia Arquette

  Healing, Perfect, Water

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• In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

  David Hockney

  Art, Understanding, Magic

  "Hockney and the Secrets of the Old Masters". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2001.

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• One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Taken, Humor

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• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Work Out, Wish

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story”, Gramercy

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• But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Tyrants, America

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957". Book by United States Government Printing Office, 1999.

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• I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

  David Gilmour

  Couple, Thinking, Guitar

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• The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Trying, Nuclear

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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• In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

  Howard Stringer

  World, Digital, Excitement

  "CEO Howard Stringer sees Sony's future in 3-D". Interview with David Lieberman, www.usatoday.com. January 5, 2011.

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• People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

  Laura Poitras

  Talking, People, Information

  "Tomgram: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, The Snowden Reboot". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. October 19, 2014.

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• I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Expression, Sound, Silent

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• Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Surprise, Cupid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, High Heels, Modern

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.339, Penguin

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• First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

  John W. Thompson

  Focus, Riding, Firsts

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Worry, Digital

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• RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Railroads, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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