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• From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms "imponator" (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the "imponator effect") and "imponade" (that "goo" that fills you as you get impressed with something - from "marmelade", often referred as "full of imponade", always ironic).

  Erik Naggum

  Latin, Bystanders, Ironic

  "Polymorphism in Common Lisp". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. August 18, 2001.

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• 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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• Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Reality, Talking, Fantasy

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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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• 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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• Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?

  Donald A. Norman

  Book, Trying, Use

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Donald A. Norman, Ch. 10, 1998.

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• In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Trying, Pitfalls

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Complexity, Sophistication

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Documentary, 1977.

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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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• 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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• Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

  Marlon Brando

  Acting, Social, Advantage

  "The Technique of Acting". Book by Stella Adler, 1988.

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• The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Puppets, Corporations, Facts

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 9, p. 258, 1977.

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• How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.

  Marvin Minsky

  Book, Intelligent, Thinking

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• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  Ezra Pound

  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

  Richard Dawkins

  Enemy

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Apples, Momentum

  "Ballmer Sees Mac as a Main Competitor, iPhone as Just Buzz". AppleInsider, appleinsider.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

  George Eliot

  Life, Air, Games

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196

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• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Punctuation Marks, Confusing

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney (Foreword, p. 13), 2003.

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• For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.

  Howard Stringer

  Real, World, Eras

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• If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Workout, Health

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• People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

  Laura Poitras

  Talking, People, Information

  "Tomgram: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, The Snowden Reboot". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. October 19, 2014.

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• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Islamic, Cities, Worst Case Scenario

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• Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Wise, Stress

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