Devices Quotes - Page 18

• Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Data, Five Senses

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• Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Principles, Analysis

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.11, Walter de Gruyter

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• The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Food, Book, Machines

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• I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

  Jason Bateman

  Kids, Technology, Iphone

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I think Apple is a great device company.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Thinking, Apples, Company

  "TIME WARNER CEO: I Hope Apple Makes A TV" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2012.

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• A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

  Anna Brackett

  Book, Simple, Two

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• In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

  P. D. James

  Memories, Past, Looks

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

  P. D. James

  Heart, Desire, Want

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.505, Vintage

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• Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.

  Burton Malkiel

  Believe, Successful, Views

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• In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Absence, Natural

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.89, Zola Books

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

  George D. Prentice

  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wings, Gold, Wish

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• Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Men, Lazy, Saving

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• Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

  Charlie Kaufman

  Keys, Design, Quality

  "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World". Book by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, April 22, 2002.

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• It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

  John C. Malone

  Communication, Needs, Internet

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• I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

  Duff McKagan

  Crazy, Writing, Littles

  FaceBook post by Duff McKagan from Jul 30, 2015

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• A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

  Eric Topol

  Change, Real, Smartphones

  "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

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• I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

  Milla Jovovich

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  Romy & The Bunnies Interview, romyandthebunnies.com.

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• Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

  Paul McEuen

  Dna, Ideas, Molecules

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• I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.

  Danny Boyle

  Drama, Character, Sun

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Names, Squirrels

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• The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.

  Bill Walton

  Mistake, Gun, Usa

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Serious, Study

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

  Anne Waldman

  Light, Ideas, Sound

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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