#device

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#device #i #i think #kind #projecting

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#device #die #friends #help #immortality

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#appealing #audience #being #device #distinguishes

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#deliver #devices #economies #expensive #governments

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#applications #device #importance #kind #making

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

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

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#breadth #contributes #device #each #nature

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

— David Rose

#box #devices #fee #out #subscription