Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Votes: 2
Ambrose BierceDemocracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. Votes: 2
George Bernard ShawA newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. Votes: 2
H. L. MenckenFantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinThe most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money. Votes: 0
Joey Lauren AdamsConspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. Votes: 0
Henry Louis GatesPASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceConflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. Votes: 0
Aaron SorkinThe essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyA learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience. Votes: 0
Nils John NilssonMeditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. Votes: 0
Sharon SalzbergAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. Votes: 0
David LangfordSolemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device Votes: 0
Mike ParryThe two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. Votes: 0
Merrill McPeakIn its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. Votes: 0
Joe SabiaLearning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. Votes: 0
Jean-Baptiste de La SalleThe average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes. Votes: 0
Arianna HuffingtonBuilding a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. Votes: 0
Andrew VachssThe Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills. Votes: 0
Dana RohrabacherLanguage is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. Votes: 0
Benjamin Lee WhorfIt will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device. Votes: 0
John C. MaloneA credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. Votes: 0
Evan EsarYou've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? Votes: 0
Steve GarfieldWhatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. Votes: 0
Tim Berners-LeeWe know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. Votes: 0
Peter De VriesAny device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good. Votes: 0
EpicurusWhat is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. Votes: 0
George PolyaIt wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device. Votes: 0
Hayden SchlossbergToo often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking. Votes: 0
Edward John CarnellDeath is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianOne of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. Votes: 0
Charles E. AllenSometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirThe state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many. Votes: 0
Murray RothbardEveryday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people. Votes: 0
PabloI do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding. Votes: 0
Jacques LeBlancPress on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisPress on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. Votes: 0
Nathaniel ParkerThe economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real. That's why it's got the word con in it. Votes: 0
Russell BrandComputer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people. Votes: 0
Mark ShuttleworthFaith: a device of the mind, fed by the soul, that functions like crutches to a man in a wheelchair. Votes: 0
Jarod Kintz