Device Quotes

“Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users.”
― Steven Magee

“Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.”
― Harold Edmund Stearns, America and the young intellectual

“To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices.”
― Steven Magee

“I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“There should be a device which can detect when the person is getting angry and should not let that person speak till he/she calms down. This will solve so many problems.”
― Nauman Khan

“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately.”
― Ernst Jentsch, Zur Psychologie des Unheimlichen

“The smart phone is a really amazing device, but it is a bad idea to hold one next to your brain for extended periods of time.”
― Steven Magee

“Some devices are smart, unlike their owners.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Antistatic devices (ASD) are commonly used in many industries and may present a health hazard to those who work with these.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“A device in the arm of his chair made an obscene noise. The murals on the chair suggested disturbing things being done to some briefly unlucky beings.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.’ Marsh’k sat down on his seat of office. It made a muted and rather obscene noise as he sank into the seat and the device registered his presence.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred, we see the reduction of health care for the poor, sick and elderly.”
― Steven Magee

“Gadgets helps the solo, not the soul.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“CPAP never really worked for me and it was a few years later that the medical profession discovered I had positional sleep apnea that needed treatment with a positional device, not a CPAP machine.”
― Steven Magee

“Device against self, self beside device,
An idea about life,
Imitations of this, imitations of that,
Very funny life.”
― J.L. Haynes

“A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.’ The mind was the first and final battleground. The stuff in between was just noise.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“...devices keep them occupied, and like babies given a pacifier or a breast, they fall silent and begin to entertain themselves quietly with them. However, when those devices are taken away, their addicted selves transform them into beings who make nothing but noise. Their minds are so utterly empty—yet so utterly stubborn—that when silence arises, the only thing they do is suppress it and return to making noise.”
― Sov8840

“The Cloudbuster, a device central to Wilhelm Reich's later work, emerged from his groundbreaking theories on orgone energy, a universal life force he believed permeated all living things and the atmosphere.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion