#devise

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ↗

— Walt Disney

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ↗

— Frederick Henry Hedge

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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised. ↗

— Mark Millar

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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

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