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I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me. -- Steven Magee
Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site. -- Alex Chiu
An ongoing challenge for Australia is ensuring equity of access to technology. Since the decline in federal funding, many schools are reverting to bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs and this puts the onus back on families to fund devices. -- Susan Mann
The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. -- Franklin P. Jones
All for one, one for all, that is our device. -- Alexandre Dumas
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. -- Ambrose Bierce
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. -- Ken Auletta
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. -- Dudley Moore
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. -- H. L. Mencken
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. -- Margaret Mead
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. -- J. K. Rowling
When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with. -- Phil Schiller
I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices. -- Randall L. Stephenson
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. -- Thomas Kuhn
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone. -- Steve Jobs
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way. -- Noam Chomsky
The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework. -- Julius Genachowski
You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being. -- Jack Nicholson
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. -- Jaron Lanier
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
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing. -- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them. -- Ron Wyden
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling. -- Michel Hazanavicius
The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager. Just kidding. I actually shave every morning, and thanks to my vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, I will my facial hair to grow to the exact same length each day. Dave Grohl taught me that one. -- Reid Scott
So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. -- Steve Jobs
The multipurpose device will always fail. -- Marc Andreessen
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. -- Woodrow Wilson
Emotion is the best mnemonic device. -- Alice Fulton
I think Apple is a great device company. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
Storytelling with music is a really powerful device. -- Randy Harrison
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. -- Charles Francis Richter
I thought using one device would be simpler. -- Hillary Clinton
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. -- Thomas Sowell
Work is the only device I know of. -- Truman Capote
The most popular labor-saving device is still money. -- Phyllis George
Line is the most powerful device of drawing. -- John French Sloan
There is no known device for artistic contraception. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. -- Arthur Helps
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history. -- Richard Dawkins
A book is a device to ignite the imagination. -- Alan Bennett
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. -- Steven Wright
The most popular labor saving device is still money. -- Phyllis George
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
I show people how to build their own immortality device. -- Alex Chiu
The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device. -- Frank Zappa
Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created. -- Tim Cook
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. -- Lord Byron
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. -- Paul Johnson
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There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device. -- Jamais Cascio
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. -- Donna Tartt
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. -- Baltasar Gracian
Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. -- Henry Louis Gates
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. -- Ambrose Bierce
The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money. -- Joey Lauren Adams
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. -- Charles Francis Richter
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. -- Doug Larson
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. -- James Collins
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web. -- Mike McCue
No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market. -- Nikola Tesla
I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device. -- John Musker
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. -- Sharon Salzberg
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. -- Aaron Sorkin
If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device. -- Don Mattrick
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. -- David Langford
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything -- Aldous Huxley
A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience. -- Nils John Nilsson
Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device. -- Donald A. Norman
The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. -- Merrill McPeak
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. -- Joe Sabia
Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device -- Mike Parry
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR. -- Phil Taylor
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. -- Nikola Tesla
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. -- Andrew Vachss
The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills. -- Dana Rohrabacher
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes. -- Arianna Huffington
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service. -- Mike Harding
Ð¡ase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable. -- Robert J. Dolan
A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. -- Evan Esar
You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? -- Steve Garfield
It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device. -- John C. Malone
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. -- William Graham Sumner
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. -- Seth MacFarlane
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking. -- Edward John Carnell
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. -- Vladimir Lenin
It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device. -- Hayden Schlossberg
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. -- Frederick Busch
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. -- George Polya
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good. -- Epicurus
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. -- Helen Fisher
Whatever device you use... Windows will be there. ... Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise. -- Steve Ballmer
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. -- Peter De Vries
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic -- Ambrose Bierce
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room. -- Red Skelton
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many. -- Murray Rothbard
One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. -- Charles E. Allen
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. -- Antony Jay
Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people. -- Pablo
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created. -- Jason Calacanis
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption. -- Ray Davies
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis

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