Devices Quotes - Page 37

• When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device

  Mike Parry

  Feet, Spatulas, Type

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• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  Leonard Susskind

  Technology, Men, Rocks

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• Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

  Stephen Elop

  Ecosystems, Share, Competitors

  "Nokia on 'burning platform' warns boss" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2011.

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• I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

  Tom Clancy

  Years, People, United States

  "Kudlow & Cramer", September 2, 2003.

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• I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.

  Michael Dell

  Medicine, Hydration, Blood

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

  Seth Lloyd

  Order, Mechanic, Quantum

  "Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing" by Scott Dewing, blog.insidethebox.org, September 23, 2011.

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• A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

  Nina Berman

  Photography, Commitment, Strings Attached

  "Photographs Not Taken". Book by Will Steacy, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

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• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Light, Boredom

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• Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.

  James Dyson

  Unique, Technology, Keys

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• It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

  Philip Yancey

  Baseball, Art, Father

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• Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

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  Ram Dass

  Teaching, Soul, Becoming

  "Exclusive Interview With Ram Dass". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

  John French Sloan

  Powerful, Drawing, Lines

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• Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.

  Josh Quittner

  Communication, Reading, Want

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• If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.

  Don Mattrick

  Zero, Internet, Offline

  "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" by Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Wearable devices are here to stay, and they'll only get more sophisticated and effective as they evolve. Until now, most of us have made our health and fitness decisions based on what we think we know about ourselves. Advancements in technology - wearables and otherwise - will eventually take much of the guess work out of healthy living.

  Michael Dell

  Technology, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

  Jill Lepore

  Get Better, World, May

  "Why do we buy phones with so many features, then only play Candy Crush?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.

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• The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mastery, Levels, May

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• Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Pain, Fear, Mean

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• The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Way, Helping

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• Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.

  Robert Novak

  Dog, School, Kids

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• In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

  Ivy Lee

  Imperfect World, Discipline, Safety

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• I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Smell, Appreciate, Tape

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Air, Ecosystems

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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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• 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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