Devices Quotes - Page 24

• Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.

  Pamela McCorduck

  Technology, Information, Computer

  Pamela McCorduck (1985). “The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspirational, Motivational, Icons

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• At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs, that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service.

  Lisa Gansky

  Data, Cities, Numbers

  "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Reality, Mad

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• The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

  Lisa Gansky

  Gps, Differences, Space

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• Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.

  Ally Carter

  Art, Communication, Jealous

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• We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Saving, Today

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, War, Son

  J. R. R. TOLKIEN “THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING”

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• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Daughter, Time, Son

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Hands, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

  Olivia Wilde

  Appreciate, Connections, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 13, 2013

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• I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.

  Rachel Caine

  Nails, Never Forget, Excellent

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.71, Allison & Busby

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• In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, Drm, Roaches

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.102, Tachyon Publications

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• Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

  Lucy Grealy

  Self, Lasts, Consciousness

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• Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

  Lisa Gansky

  Information, Irresistible, Sharing Things

  "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  Regina Brett

  Eye, Hands, People

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• I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.

  Richard Gere

  Sleep, Sacrifice, Wife

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

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• A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

  Noah Hawley

  Character, Two, Goal

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.

  Hugh Laurie

  Believe, Ideas, Ipods

  "Hugh Laurie peels 'The Oranges' and talks about happiness after 'House'". Interview with Thelma Adams, yahoo.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.

  Garry Winogrand

  Art, Differences, Museums

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• The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

  Frederick Busch

  Reality, People, Together

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I know a lot of people don't like the big phone [ iPhone] because they can't use it one-handed. But I'm telling you, it is a marvel. Aside from a couple of things, it's my favorite thing that I have. It's just the absolute best. The thinking, the inventiveness, the innovation that's in these devices blows me away. It's the first thing to come along in a long time that actually makes me regret getting older. I'm now realizing the tech that I'm going to miss at some point.

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Regret, Blow

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

  Alexandra Byrne

  Thinking, Color, Costumes

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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