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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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• 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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• 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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• The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Eye, Technology

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• We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

  Steve Jobs

  Ipods, Design, Trying

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Complexity, Sophistication

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Documentary, 1977.

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• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Punctuation Marks, Confusing

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney (Foreword, p. 13), 2003.

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• There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another.

  Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  Eye, Color, Two

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• Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.

  Genevieve Bell

  Smart, Might, Today

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• Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Reality, Talking, Fantasy

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• When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophy, Silly, Law

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, World, Modern

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• This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

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• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  Evan Esar

  Cards, Credit, Trouble

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• Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Order, Creating, Track

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 17, Section 3, p. 234, February 1936.

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• Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

  George Eliot

  Life, Air, Games

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196

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• So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

  Marianne Moore

  Experts, Unicorn, Disappear

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.78, Penguin

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• Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

  Richard Dawkins

  Enemy

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Trying, Pitfalls

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Gratitude, Grateful, Support You

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• All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Apples, Momentum

  "Ballmer Sees Mac as a Main Competitor, iPhone as Just Buzz". AppleInsider, appleinsider.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.

  Steve Ballmer

  Use, Compromise, Window

  "Live from Microsoft's CES 2011 keynote". www.engadget.com. January 05, 2011.

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• Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Power, Purpose

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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