Tablets Quotes - Page 6

• You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Stones, Bigs, Heavy

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• And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Years

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

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• The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

  Bill Gates

  Reading, Mainstream, Screens

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• The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

  Noah Webster

  Law, Two, Stones

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.39

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• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Cancer, Healing, Health

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• Collecting cookbooks is still my biggest passion! Believe it or not, I actually got the biggest form of inspiration from my kids. My kids do everything online. They would have their tablets in front of them watching hours upon hours of online videos. I came to understand that these videos were actually teaching my kids lots of different forms of information.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Believe, Teaching, Inspiration

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Innovation, Globalization, Enjoy

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.

  LeVar Burton

  Technology, America, Land

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. August 4, 2012.

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• I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid.

  LeVar Burton

  Kids, America, Hands

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. August 4, 2012.

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• It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.

  Esther Dyson

  Simple, Order, Needs

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• I don’t think there should be apps specific to a tablet…if someone makes an ICS app it’s going to run on phones and it’s going to run on tablets.

  Andy Rubin

  Running, Thinking, Phones

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• Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they'll do next?

  Tim Cook

  Confused, Competition, Trying

  "iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display launch: as it happened" by Jemima Kiss, Charles Arthur, Samuel Gibbs and Alex Hern, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2013.

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• In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Years, Reason

  "BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets". Bloomberg Technology, April 30, 2013.

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• In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Years, Reason

  "BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets". Bloomberg Technology, April 30, 2013.

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• What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  Susanna Moodie

  Memories, Evil, Faithful

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

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• We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.

  Alan Robert

  Phones, Long, Needs

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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