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• Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mistake, Iphone, Organization

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• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Drawing, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

  Bill Peet

  Writing, Yellow, Sketching

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• I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Care, Aspirin

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• Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

  Steven Pressfield

  Reading, Alive, Next

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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• And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, Home, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Travel, Sleep, Night

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• Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Magazines, Made, Obvious

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• Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

  Chris Hughes

  Reading, Years, Majority

  "New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media" By Brian Stelter, Michael J. de la Merced, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com. March 9, 2012.

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• What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

  John Romero

  Ends, Posts, Console

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• Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Communication, School, Technology

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• A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Writing

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• Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

  Thorsten Heins

  Smartphones, Elements, Paradigm

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.

  Dave Barry

  Taken, Brain, Groups

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• I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Done, Customers

  "Here's Why Surface Beats Apple's iPad: Ballmer" by Cadie Thompson, www.cnbc.com. November 9, 2012.

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• (When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) "Frankly, I am not the person who came up with the Aakash tablet. You need to ask the gentleman who came up with it.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Party, Gentleman, Needs

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• The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it.

  John C. Dvorak

  Dream, Years, Apples

  "Hello, giant iPod Touch". www.marketwatch.com. January 29, 2010.

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• We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ and the reality of the Restoration, and we need to find a way to motivate them to write these things on the 'tablets of their hearts.'

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Teaching, Writing, Heart

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• Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Moral, Form, Code

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• I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad, I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

  Julia Sawalha

  Malaria, Alternatives

  "Celebrity endorsements that are science fiction trashed in annual list" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.

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• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Anvils, Ministry, Students

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• The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Clouds, Smartphones, Tools

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• This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Men

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