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#device

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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗


— Joseph Gordon-Levitt


#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long. ↗


— Steve Jobs


#because #before #big #big thing #desktop

All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee. ↗


— David Rose


#box #devices #fee #out #subscription

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#clockwork-angel #glib #humorous #infenal-devices #jam

They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#epilogue #infernal-devices #james-castairs #jem #jem-castairs

You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can't love her as I do. No one could. If you are truly my brother, you would do this for me. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#jem #tessa #the-infernal-devices #will #life

I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #jem-carstairs #will-herondale #problems

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗


— Paul Erdos


#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗


— Monica Edwards


#case #dealing #device #happiness #her

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? ↗


— Emilio Estevez


#before #brains #certain #certain things #connected






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