Devices Quotes - Page 39

• I've been testing RealPlayer Cloud on all these devices… I think RealPlayer Cloud is well-designed and makes storing and sharing videos easy across different devices.

  Walt Mossberg

  Thinking, Clouds, Different

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• I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bird

  Maria Shriver Graduation Speech - Video & Transcript, gradspeeches.com. May 11, 2012.

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• In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Data, Secret

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin

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• Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.

  Dean Lombardi

  Moving, Delay, Opinion

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• Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Fundamentals, Assumption, Debate

  Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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• I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought to be to illuminate the road, to point out obstacles and potential pitfalls and so assist management to tailor events and to bend them in a desired direction. Forecasting should be used as a device to put both problems and opportunities into perspective. It is a management tool, but it can never be a substitute for strategy, nor should it ever be used as the primary basis for portfolio investment decisions.

  Peter Cundill

  Thinking, Intelligent, Opportunity

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• I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Ideas, Plot, Cinema

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• Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems

  Kevin Mitnick

  People, Dollars, Use

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• Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

  Martin Cooper

  People, Doe, Wells

  "Inventor of mobile phones says they have become 'too complicated'" by Rachel Cooper, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 6, 2009.

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• Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

  David C.H. Austin

  Flower, Rose, Growth

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• A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Validation, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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• There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Passing On, World

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• Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were vehicles for the cultivation of life, knowledge, and virtue, not devices to throw people with.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, People, Technique

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• To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Years, Envy, Atheism

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• To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.

  Alexander Stille

  Powerful, People, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

  Alexander Payne

  Honesty, Distance, Talking

  "Q&A: Alexander Payne on his life at the movies". Interview with Jake Coyle, yhoo.it. November 15, 2013.

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• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Philosophy

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

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• I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all - how fast it is, how many songs it can hold, and all that - he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Important, Looks

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Snacks, Hiking, Water

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Self, Eggs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Color, People, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Doors, Problem

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that law - which in my view is the single worst piece of legislation passed in the last half century - in every way that we can.

  Mitch McConnell

  Views, Law, Pieces

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Mirrors, Hands

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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