| Andy Hertzfeld |  People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
Andy Hertzfeld |
| Antony Jay | 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay |
| Armistead Maupin | It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
Armistead Maupin |
| arrested | The director of a company which sold a bomb-detecting device to 20 countries, including Iraq, is arrested on suspicion of fraud. |
| Benjamin Whorf | Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Whorf |
| Bertrand Russell | 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 |
| Calvin Coolidge | The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge |
| Carol P. Christ | Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
Carol P. Christ |
| Cecil Beaton | On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton |
| Cecil Frank Powell | Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell |
| Charles Francis Richter | I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Charles Francis Richter |
| Charles Francis Richter | Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Charles Francis Richter |
| Daniel P. Moynihan | Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel P. Moynihan |
| Dee Hock | Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock |
| device | A cancer charity calls on Boots to stop stocking a device which claims to help women detect breast abnormalities. |
| device | A computerised weighing device that tracks how quickly food is gobbled off the plate could help fight obesity, researchers say. |
| device | He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose, it must have been very faint, for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all, and gathering a few stones, formed them into some device. |
| device | Microsoft and HP team up to introduce a slate computer ahead of the launch of a much rumoured device from Apple. |
| dimensions | Scientists create the first cloaking device to render an object invisible in three dimensions. |
| Donald Norman | 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 |
