Devices Quotes
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.
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.
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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.
It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."
I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.
We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.
Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.
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.
Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.
The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.