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Quotes About Devices

Los dispositivos digitales evitan errores pequeños pero preparan el terreno para grandes errores».
~ Tim Harford
Cognifying photography has revolutionized it because intelligence enables cameras to slip into anything (in a sunglass frame, in a color on clothes, in a pen) and do more, including calculate 3-D, HD, and many other options that earlier would have taken $100,000 and a van full of equipment to do. Now cognified photography is something almost any device can do as a side job.
~ Kevin Kelly
Any time we turn to the devil's devices to solve the issues of our soul, we step out from under the umbrella of God's protection and become vulnerable to the elements. Freedom comes, as I shared in the story above, by breaking these covenants through verbally renouncing each one of them. When these contracts are destroyed, our enemy loses the legal right to oppress us.
~ Kris Vallotton
Since God actually became visible man, no visible man should leave the visible world to its own devices.
~ Carl Schmitt
Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.
~ George Takei
Or perhaps Siri's programmers included parents who anticipated their children's unauthorized use of their mobile devices—trust me, a four year old can use an iPhone better than most adults):
~ George Takei
Kafka saw both himself and Red Peter as hybrids, as monstrous thinking devices mounted inexplicably on suffering animal bodies.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of devices, flowing from phone to phone and computer to computer, rather than being sealed away in those silent marble temples we used to call banks.
~ Sarah Jeong
I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.
~ Alex Kingston
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.
~ Hugh Shelton
Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.
~ Walt Mossberg
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
~ Paul Di Filippo
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
~ H. G. Wells
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
~ Dana Boente
The chilly rationale of hindsight is what exposes the how and why of something that once seemed supernatural. It's the magician's manual that shows you how the tricks are done, not with sorcery but with careful cues and mysterious devices.
~ Tayari Jones
Consider radiology. Technology is going to reduce the use of those machines because doctors aren't going to need to send patients two or three times for radiology. They're going to have access to what the previous specialist took. There's also going to be devices that are coming out that are much less costly.
~ Bruce Broussard
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
~ Seth Lloyd
One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.
~ Sundar Pichai
Technology is changing the world around us at a rapid pace, and the capabilities of connected devices will continue to advance at break-neck speed.
~ Tae Yoo
Nowadays our mobile phones relay microwaves.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.
~ Paul McEuen
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
~ Wes Craven
In the chip industry, by lowering startup costs, Chang's foundry model gave birth to dozens of new "authors"—fabless chip design firms—that transformed the tech sector by putting computing power in all sorts of devices.
~ Chris Miller