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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. — Thomas Sowell

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. — Paul Johnson

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. — Antony Jay

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have. — Andrew Zuckerman

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good. — Harry Cohn

All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead. — Milan Nikolic

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry. — Christopher Hitchens

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters. — Elbert Hubbard

Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on. — Emery Lord

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. — Michael Moore

It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft. — Andy Weir

Faith: a device of the mind, fed by the soul, that functions like crutches to a man in a wheelchair. — Jarod Kintz

Nothing on earth really matters, there is nothing to fear, and death is but a question of style, a mere literary device, a musical resolution. — Vladimir Nabokov

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device. — Julius Genachowski

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience. — Nils John Nilsson

I thought using one device would be simpler. — Hillary Clinton

I show people how to build their own immortality device. — Alex Chiu

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. — Merrill McPeak

Cordelia faced one more climb onto that torture-device for humans and horses called a saddle. — Lois McMaster Bujold

To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices. — Steven Magee

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available. — Donald Norman

There is no known device for artistic contraception. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room. — Red Skelton

The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light. — P. J. O'Rourke

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him. — C.S. Lewis

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. — Paul Laseau

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. — Ray Dalio

I mean you are reading this book on a kindle device which would be wiped out if we were hit with an EMP attack. — Scotty Boyd

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem. — George Lucas

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. — Hector Ruiz

But Mike was not a Layercake device; Beria had misdirected his scientific staff. In time this led to Beria's ultimate dilemma. — Thomas C. Reed

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device. — Frank Zappa

Prayer is a spiritual device that links humankind direct to the Father. — Euginia Herlihy

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. — Barack Obama

It's good Netiquette to sanitize mobile devices, smartphones & tablets. They carry a lot of germs. — David Chiles

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device. — John C. Malone

Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners. — John Scarne

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing. — Elmore Leonard

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. — Simone De Beauvoir

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary. — Chris Toumazou

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. — Ken Auletta

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show. — Anne Waldman

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. — H.L. Mencken

Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world. — Satya Nadella

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

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. — Andrew Vachss

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes

It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards. — Georgiana Burne-Jones

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption. — Ray Davies

Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people. — Pablo

Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded — Giuseppe Levi

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means. — Henry Hazlitt

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word. — Nancy Duarte

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. — Eric Hobsbawm

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times. — Alexis Denisof

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — George Gordon Byron

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J.G. Ballard

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge. — Dharma Kumar

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. — Helen Fisher

I think Apple is a great device company. — Jeffrey Bewkes

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. — Charles Francis Richter

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. — Woodrow Wilson

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror. — Harold Edmund Stearns

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. — James Collins

The multipurpose device will always fail. — Marc Andreessen

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device. — Tim Berners-Lee

SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR. — Phil Taylor

Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected. — Michael Lewis

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device. — Bill Gates

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Benjamin Whorf

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. — Peter Davison

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. — Aldous Huxley

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real-that's why it's got the word "con" in the middle of it. — Russell Brand

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. — H.L. Mencken

If the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. — Ambrose Bierce

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. — Nikola Tesla

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? — Steve Garfield

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device. — Jason Calacanis

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials. — Taylor Wilson

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device. — Donald A. Norman

Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle. — Noelle Scaggs

That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device. — Marlon James

Listen carefully: The difference between explosive dysentery and explosive device is huge. Still they blew up my lunch anyway. — Komrade Komura

The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic. — Rumi

I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device — James Thurber

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. — Genevieve Bell

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great! — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device. — Bill Gates

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill. — Winston Churchill

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable. — Conan O'Brien

Let's create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are — Natasha Tsakos

A brick could be used as a Sexual Orientation Device. But I don't need it, because I know my sexual orientation - north! — Jarod Kintz