Device Operation Range

Famous quotes containing the words device, operation and/or range:

    “Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
    —Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

    “Lord Bateman prepared for another marriage,
    So both their hearts so full of glee.
    ‘I will range no more to foreign countries
    Now since Sophia have a-crossed the sea.’”
    —Unknown. Young Beichan (l. 81–84)