Devices Quotes - Page 38

• A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Validation, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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• The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere, and they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of where, when, how they were accessing the brand.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Feelings, Would Be, Culture

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• Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

  David C.H. Austin

  Flower, Rose, Growth

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• When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Color, People, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Mirrors, Hands

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Self, Eggs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that law - which in my view is the single worst piece of legislation passed in the last half century - in every way that we can.

  Mitch McConnell

  Views, Law, Pieces

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Distance, Moon, Rocks

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• It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, Entering, World

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Thinking, Two

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Fun, Real, Games

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• Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Insecure, Phones, Easy

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• I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

  Ally Carter

  Mom, Nice, Thinking

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Ends, Caught

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought to be to illuminate the road, to point out obstacles and potential pitfalls and so assist management to tailor events and to bend them in a desired direction. Forecasting should be used as a device to put both problems and opportunities into perspective. It is a management tool, but it can never be a substitute for strategy, nor should it ever be used as the primary basis for portfolio investment decisions.

  Peter Cundill

  Thinking, Intelligent, Opportunity

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• Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems

  Kevin Mitnick

  People, Dollars, Use

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• Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipads, Hype, Pda

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• Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Color, Gone Away, Dresses

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.76, Penguin

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• Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Fundamentals, Assumption, Debate

  Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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• I've been testing RealPlayer Cloud on all these devices… I think RealPlayer Cloud is well-designed and makes storing and sharing videos easy across different devices.

  Walt Mossberg

  Thinking, Clouds, Different

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• I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bird

  Maria Shriver Graduation Speech - Video & Transcript, gradspeeches.com. May 11, 2012.

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• In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Data, Secret

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin

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• Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.

  Dean Lombardi

  Moving, Delay, Opinion

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• The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Tragedy, Quality

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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