Devices Quotes - Page 3

• The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

  John S. Pistole

  Technology, Light, Enemy

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• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Government, Class

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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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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• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

  Vinton Cerf

  Wells, Appliances, Household

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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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• 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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• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Special, Sound, Firsts

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• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Ideas, Goes On, Language

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• None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.

  Anita Borg

  Track, Addresses

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• I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Devil, Plot, Lucky

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• A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

  David Stockman

  Cutting, Hair, Overcoming

  David Stockman (2013). “The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed”, p.75, PublicAffairs

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• Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Government, People, Technique

  Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

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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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• 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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• 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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• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Mean, Power, Secret

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• Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Fun, Looks, Television

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• By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

  Steven Chu

  Moving, Numbers, Design

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• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Change, Mind, Enemy

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

  Tod Machover

  Obvious Things, Wells, Limitation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Husband, Drinking, Saving

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• The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Depressing, Men

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.49, 谷月社

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• When I needed an e-book formatted fast and formatted perfectly, Polgarus Studio came through for me. My expectations were exceeded. It's a relief knowing I can count on a hand-formatted e-book that will work on every device. Highly recommended!

  Hugh Howey

  Book, Knowing, Hands

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• In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with its religious conviction that the market, left to its own devices, is capable of resolving all our problems. This faith has its own ayatollahs. Its church is neo-liberalism; its creed is profit; its prayers are for monopolies.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Religious, Prayer, Church

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• With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, People, Understanding

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