A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
Donald Norman

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
James Collins

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul Erdos

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.
Michael Scheuer

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
Roy H. Williams

All for one, one for all, that is our device.
Alexandre Dumas

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
Alex Chiu

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Andrew Vachss

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel P. Moynihan

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.
Leland Stanford

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.
John W. Thompson

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.
Kevin Mitnick

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.
John Zorn

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.
Martin Fleischmann

I show people how to build their own immortality device.
Alex Chiu