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Devices Quotes - Page 2

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

"Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.42, e-artnow

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

"David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.468, Cosimo, Inc.

Work is the only device I know of.

Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.22, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.7, Basic Books

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

"Nokia on 'burning platform' warns boss" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2011.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

"Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

"Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web Soon to Look More Like Magazines". Interview with Robert Hof, www.forbes.com. September 12, 2011.