Devices Quotes - Page 36

• Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Effort, Stones

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

  Dave Barry

  Squares, Feet, Vacuums

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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• The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same; so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Beautiful, Men, Ideas

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• I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

  Stan Brakhage

  Photography, Art, Struggle

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• I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

  George Lucas

  Use, Problem, Dialogue

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

  John Baldessari

  Horse, Fall, Kissing

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• I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.

  Eric Topol

  Real, Heart, Ultrasounds

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• The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

  Bill Gates

  People, Roles, World

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• After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.

  Dani Shapiro

  Morning, Coffee, Iphone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

  Dani Shapiro

  Community, Littles, Hungry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really like the spooky twists and the intense mystery. I think the various plot devices work really well for TV, but they are still also in the spirit of Pretty Little Liars as a whole. I also really liked Spencer's breakdown in the previous season after Toby betrayed her. The girls have had breakdowns of sorts in the books, so it was fun to see that on-screen.

  Sara Shepard

  Girl, Fun, Liars

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Order, Comforting, Confusing

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.

  Biz Stone

  Simple, Over You, Get Better

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Creating, Theatrical

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

  Stef Penney

  Views, Narrative, Chapters

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

  Carlos Alomar

  Thinking, Sound, Individual

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good."

  Leni Zumas

  Teacher, Way, Students

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

  Leni Zumas

  Long, World, Membranes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really do need to have a sense of what you're doing in mobile devices. I had put the company on a path. The board as I was leaving took the company on a path by buying Nokia, they kind of went ahead with that after I told them I was going to go. The company, between me and the board, had taken that sort of view. Satya, he's certainly changed that. He needs to have a clear path forward. But I'm sure he'll get there.

  Steve Ballmer

  Taken, Views, Clouds

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

  Haskell Wexler

  Virginia, Years, Cameras

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Sure, end-to-end encryption means that whether it's a phone call we're on or an email message we're sending or any form of electronic communication, that the content of that communication is encrypted from your device, such as your phone or PC, unto the other person's device at the other side, wherever they might be on the planet Earth.

  Rod Beckstrom

  Communication, Mean, Phones

  "The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.

  Susan Davis

  Years, Law, Two

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.

  William Bratton

  Order, Law, Effort

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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