#devices

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

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I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

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You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #page- #death

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#devices #harder #much #physical #start-up

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#category #devices #different #going #i

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#devices #doctors #lots #medical #oh

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. ↗

— Merton Miller

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