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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -- Horace Mann
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. -- H. G. Wells
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. -- Otto Hahn
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -- Thomas J. Watson
Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products. -- David Rose
Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices. -- David Rose
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. -- William Powell
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter. -- Bob Gill
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do. -- Drew Houston
In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the most. And I relate the most to Simon from 'The Mortal Instruments,' and also Tessa from 'The Infernal Devices.' They're more sort of bookish and shy characters. -- Cassandra Clare
I am in the U.K. for inspiration because I'm doing a follow on series to 'The Infernal Devices,' called 'The Last Hours.' It's a re-telling of 'Great Expectations' with 'Shadowhunters'... because why not! It's set in 1903, so I'm doing a lot of locational research. -- Cassandra Clare
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. -- Ambrose Bierce
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. -- Charles Francis Richter
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. -- Dudley Moore
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. -- Kary Mullis
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. -- H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. -- Steve Jobs
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. -- Margaret Mead
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. -- Fred Allen
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
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
Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society. -- Shirley Manson
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension. -- John Clellon Holmes
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. -- Dorothy E. Denning
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. -- Barbara Tuchman
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. -- Norbert Wiener
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices. -- Ivan Pavlov
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. -- Claire Danes
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. -- Howard Rheingold
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder. -- Steven Pinker
The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs. -- Michael Dell
An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is. -- Steve Jobs
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
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. -- Paul McEuen
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. -- Henry Rollins
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up. -- Trent Reznor
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound. -- David Gilmour
Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results. -- Hugh Shelton
I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way. -- Dee Bradley Baker
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans. -- Lech Walesa
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. -- Ben Parr
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it. -- Douglas Adams
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. -- Paul Bloom
Point shoes are torture devices. -- Natalie Portman
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. -- Sergei Prokofiev
More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities. -- Marc Goodman
Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices. -- will.i.am
Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on. -- Tim Cook
If left to their own devices a child will achieve. -- Aimee Mullins
Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices. -- Billy West
These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand. -- Sun Tzu
Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with. -- Gerry Mulligan
Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices. -- Steve Ballmer
It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices. -- Marc Andreessen
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. -- David Stockman
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. -- Dick Cavett
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices. -- Shantanu Narayen
We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006, -- Jorma Ollila
All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee. -- David Rose
I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices. -- Alexandra Byrne
This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems. -- Stephen Elop
We'll have 130 million phone devices that have Flash by the end of the year. -- Shantanu Narayen
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard. -- Kage Baker
Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices. -- Tristan Perich
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts -- John Warren Kindt
Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops. -- Brian Krzanich
Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life. -- Catherine McCormack
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power. -- Gerard Cox
In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices. -- Joan Didion
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization"?any kind of civilization"?disappears. -- Jared Taylor
When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. -- Neil Postman
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. -- Benjamin W. Chidlaw
Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking. -- Del Quentin Wilber
Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible. -- Lisa Gansky
The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer. -- Jill Lepore
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. -- Tom Peters
None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own. -- Anita Borg
There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices. -- David Rose
Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices. -- Geoff Mulgan
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. -- Jeff Bezos
When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I've been set afire. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites. -- Vladimir Putin
Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices. -- Hans Vestberg
The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems. -- Myron Tribus
All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better. -- David Attenborough
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. -- John Lydon
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices. -- Will Cuppy
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices. -- Narendra Modi
Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. -- Stephen Elop
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. -- Merton Miller
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. -- Julia Cameron
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. -- Julia Cameron
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. -- Simon Heffer
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price. -- Alex Chiu
Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish." -- Italo Svevo
As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators. -- Julius Genachowski
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. -- Robert M. Lindner
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses. -- Ray Kurzweil
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. -- Baz Luhrmann
Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices. -- Ram Dass

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