Quotes About Devices

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.

Today's meters are little computers.

I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

But to ask a computing device to stop gathering information and to stop sharing it with other devices is like wishing away all the magic in your magic wand.

For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry; especially if they be drawn with strange beasts: as lions, bears, camels, and the like; or in the devices of their entrance; or in the bravery of their liveries; or in the goodly furniture of their horses and armor. But enough of these toys.

Sara is about as tech-savvy as your grandma.

As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. Let even a polished man of these days get into a position

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

TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

I'm fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

I do let the kids play on devices when we eat out - it's better than being thrown out of a restaurant.

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.

Dreaming, in short, is one of the devices we employ to circumvent repression, one of the main methods of what may be called indirect representation in the mind.

we can liken human beings to computing devices, the divine sacrifice of Jesus Christ to our operating system and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us to the browser or the app store application. 

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

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?