Quotes about device
A collection of quotes on the topic of device, use, doing, making.
Quotes about device

Actually a remark by Nicholas Murray Butler.
Quoted by Watson in comments about "Think" and attributed to Nicholas Murray Butler - IBM Archives: Comments on "THINK" - Transcript https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/think_trans.html
Misattributed
Source: American Dental Association (1959) The Journal of the American Dental Association. Vol 59. p. 289.

My Inventions (1919)
Source: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Context: The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle.… I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

Page 7.
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)


As quoted in Ramez Naam (2013), "The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet", ISBN 978-1611682557 p. 235

Antonio Damasio, Brain and mind from medicine to society 1/2, Open University of Catalonia, 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbacW1HVZVk
The artist may see it differently; maybe he feels it should be a shot of Spider-Man swinging on his web, or climbing upside-down on the ceiling or something.
On the early days of work at Marvel Comics. Interview (1975) http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/why/whyquote.html

The Thirteen Clocks (1951) page 32
From other fiction

“The body might be considered the hardware of the complex technical device that is human thought.”
Source: Thought Without a Body? (1994), p. 291

“I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.”
Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931)

Summary of Freud's view found in Karen Armstrong's 'A History of God' (1993), p. 409
Misattributed
The Satanic Bible (1969)

12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/horace_mann.htm (1848); published in Life and Works of Horace Mann Vol. III, (1868) edited by Mary Mann, p. 669
Context: Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of their fellow-men. This idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich: it prevents being poor.

“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”
Book I, Chapter V
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
Source: Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story
“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
Source: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

“When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: My Double Life

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 122, cited in: Jorge Reina Schement, Brent D. Ruben (1993) Information and Behavior - Volume 4. p. 517
Robert A. Solo (1994) " Kenneth Ewart Boulding: 1910-1993. An Appreciation http://www.jstor.org/stable/4226892" commented: "The image appears as crucial in Boulding's treatment of societal evolution. Here the record is in human artifacts, not only in material structures such as buildings and machines, telephones and radios, but also in organizations including the extended family, the tribe, the nation, and the corporation. All such artifacts originate in and are sustained by images in the human mind. Civilization and civilized man, in the language that he knows, the skills he acquires, the whole heritage of tradition and manners he has learned, are human artifacts."

Microsoft's Surface Phone Could Be The Ultimate Mobile Device http://forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/11/24/microsoft-surface-phone-rumor-leak-ceo-satya-nadella in Forbes (24 November 2016)

Bk. I, ch. 5.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

“Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.”
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/godzilla-1998 of Godzilla (26 May 1998)
Reviews, One-and-a-half star reviews

How Nadella will really change Microsoft http://www.businessinsider.com/how-nadella-will-really-change-microsoft-2014-7 in Business insider (15 July 2014)

Bubble, Meet Pin http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230072 in The Market Ticker (28 April 2015)

Sect. 4: Design and Assembly
"Computers Then and Now" (1968)
p, 125
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
Winston Churchill's shocking use of chemical weapons https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons (1 September 2013), .

Source: The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist http://errolmorris.com/content/lecture/theantipost.html

1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Context: Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau: "Improved means to an unimproved end". This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man. If we are to survive today, our moral and spiritual "lag" must be eliminated. Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the "without" of man's nature subjugates the "within", dark storm clouds begin to form in the world.

Meet the new CEO: Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees http://infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/meet-the-new-ceo-satya-nadellas-email-microsoft-employees-235678 in InfoWorld (4 February 2014)

Prolegomenon
New Testament History : A Narrative Account (2001)

"Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is'" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/20/niall-ferguson-interview-civilization, The Guardian, February 20, 2011.

"The Case for Xanthippe" in The Crane Bag (1969).
General sources

Why Apple needs to liberate iOS http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/27/why-apple-needs-to-liberate-ios in VentureBeat (27 July 2016)

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter VII, New Interests In land, p. 96
The Morality of Poetry
Primitivism and Decadence : A Study of American Experimental Poetry (1937)

Source: Work, Wages, and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living. 1910, p. 13-14.

Speech of Jordan Peterson at Carleton Place for the Conservative Party of Ontario <nowiki>[12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyw4rTywyY0</nowiki>]
Concepts
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), Clean Business
"Indo-European Deities and the Rigveda," JIES 29 (2001), p. 257.
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 299
Asia and Western Dominance: a survey of the Vasco Da Gama epoch of Asian history, 1498–1945
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979), p. 69; As cited in: Book Review: The Systems Approach and its Enemies http://phd-take-2.wikispaces.com/The+Systems+Approach+and+its+Enemies

1860s, The Prayer of the Twenty Millions (1862)

Section 4
100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)
Calvin Mooers (1950). " Information retrieval viewed as temporal signaling http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1950.1/Main/icm1950.1.0565.0576.ocr.pdf#page=8". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Vol. 1, S.572-573

[Vivek Wadhwa: Apple should buy Tesla and make Elon Musk CEO, https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/04/27/vivek-wadhwa-apple-should-buy-tesla-and-make-elon-musk-ceo.html, CNBC, 8 September 2018, April 27, 2016]

Tumiłowicz, Bronisław (February 2018): Zrób sobie mózg https://www.tygodnikprzeglad.pl/zrob-sobie-mozg/. Przegląd (6/2018): pp. 58–59.