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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Backwards Cell Cell Phone Culture Device Entire Everything Goes Hold Just Phone Production Seconds Think Through Up Without Wrapped You Your

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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

~Dudley Moore

Topics: Best Car Cop Device Mirror Safety

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Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Device Enjoy Every Got Inventions Joy Language Painful Part Poets Sometimes Themselves Used Voluntary Will Words Work You

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You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

~Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Topics: About Accepted Apple Beautifully Brand Brilliantly Designed Device Fast Further How Interface Iphone Look Loyalty Need Notions Out Platforms Presented Pricing Right See Software Spectacular Than Throw User Will Window Written You

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What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored.

~Edward Boyden

Topics: Between Brain Compute Computer Deliver Device Exactly Exactly What Idea Information Infrastructure Interested Many Needs Points Process Really Record Restored

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Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

~Elaine Sciolino

Topics: Attachment Been Bicycle Bikes Device First French German Giving Had Historically Invented Name Romantic Though Thought Who

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Using a special device, it's possible to steal calls and impersonate callers in the middle of a call as it's happening.

~Eli Biham

Topics: Call Calls Device Happening Middle Possible Special Steal Using

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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

~Elmore Leonard

Topics: Book Books Device Electronic Love Me Reason Started Writing

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'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About Comedy Device Drama Life Looks Lovable Love Theater Uses Va World

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Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

~Eric Hobsbawm

Topics: Achieved Device Efforts Generating Major Necessary Revolution Social Superhuman Which Without

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