Tablets Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Essence, Utterance

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• Today one can read the Gospel also on so many technological instruments. You can carry the whole Bible on your mobile phone, on your tablet. It is important to read the Word of God, by any means, but by reading the Word of God: Jesus speaks to us there! And welcome it with an open heart. Then the good seed will bear fruit!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

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• I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
  Photographically lined
  On the tablet of my mind

  W. S. Gilbert

  Memories, Mind, Age

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Divinity, Purpose

  "Theory as Practice (On Philosophy: To Dorothea)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1997.

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Travel, Strong, Memories

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.38

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• True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Expression, Opposites, Faces

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• More ubiquitous mobile technologies have led to a significant shift from desktops and laptops to the use of mobile tablets. Australian schools are increasingly using apps as they become available to support education.

  Susan Mann

  School, Technology, Support

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 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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• 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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• 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.

  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. 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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• 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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• 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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