Devices Quotes - Page 23

• Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.

  David Gelernter

  Laptops, Care, Unification

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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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• 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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• On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.

  Molly Ivins

  Men, Wind, Abuse

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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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• I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

  William Powell

  Needs, Failing, Draws

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 92, 1971.

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Data, Five Senses

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• Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

  Seth Lloyd

  Order, Mechanic, Quantum

  "Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing" by Scott Dewing, blog.insidethebox.org, September 23, 2011.

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• Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Looks, Levels

  Linux-kernel newsgroup, May 25, 2002.

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• Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Prayer, Heaven, Desire

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• The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Squad, Lines

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• I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

  Mark Feuerstein

  Half, Saving, Quiet

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• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Data, Car

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Iron, Saws

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

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• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Phones, Ipods, Needs

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Loyalty, Iphone, Apples

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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• The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

  Frank Zappa

  Player, Records, Dense

  Song: A Little Green Rosetta

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• You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

  Max Levchin

  Iphone, Phones, Growth

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  Aaron Levie

  Thinking, Iphone, Ecosystems

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• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Dirty, Mind, World

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

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