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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
People are carrying around smartphones. They have a video capture device in their pockets twenty-four/seven.
Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.
I'm not a big fan of the halo as a device. I have to face facts - it does bring something in terms of safety.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.
Using a special device, it's possible to steal calls and impersonate callers in the middle of a call as it's happening.
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
Get yourself a pedometer. It's an inexpensive device that fits in your pocket or clips on your pants and counts your steps.
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
When you're on the road, you've got to have your four-track - or some kind of recording device to jam on and have a good time.
'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.
I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it from stage.
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.
What we primarily need in Roblox games is character control, camera control and very straightforward tool, device and weapon use.
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.
My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.
Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.
The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.
I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.
There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.
When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with.
A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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?
Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.
I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device.
I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics.
Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone's reputation and what they think is their entire life. It's scary.
You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.
IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
I think young people don't appreciate that when you're in your 70s, you'll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.