The most EFFICIENT labor-saving DEVICE is STILL MONEY.

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.

I ALWAYS loved SILENT movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I BECAME really fascinated by the format - how it WORKS, the device of the silent movie.

I think PSP is going to be the most SUCCESSFUL handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in TERMS of the VERSATILITY, obviously you can download MUSIC to it, and you'll be ABLE to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

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.

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open FORM' or FREE verse is a prairie where a man can do all KINDS of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.

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.

Our phones are so intimately CONNECTED to us, to our LIVES. PUTTING advertising on a device LIKE that is a bad idea. You don't want to be INTERRUPTED by ads when you're chatting with your loved ones.

Until you USE the IPAD for a COUPLE of weeks, you can't APPRECIATE it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

In the CREATIVE industries, there are few THINGS more exciting than a zinger - a thought, IDEA, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new TASTE idea in COOKING. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't WORRIED that the digital reader would ruin LITERATURE as we know it. Rather, my CONCERN centered on using an electronic DEVICE in the bathtub.

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.