Best Thermostats Quotes & Sayings

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think - just ask my critics. — Daniel Dennett

Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. — Terry Pratchett

Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know. — Elijah Muhammad

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. — Matthew Modine

Soap operas got nothing on my family history. — Kiersten White

The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt. — Antony Gormley

Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH — Bob Marley

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns — Kanye West

In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google. — John Battelle

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble. — Krista Scott-Dixon

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely. — Charles C. Mann

Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business. — Tony Fadell

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better. — Tony Fadell

To behave as if the thermostats on their imaginations were set permanently on high. — Tom Robbins

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable. — John Battelle

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis. — Robbie Williams

No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do
not control temperature. — Robert Nozick

When you think of technology that gets people excited - long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists - the first thing to come to mind probably isn't thermostats. Then, along came Nest. — Ryan Holmes

When I flush the toilet in my bathroom, it becomes stopped up with Kleenex, and blood clouds the water and I put down the lid, because there's nothing else for me to do. — Bret Easton Ellis

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us. — Adora Svitak

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.' — Tony Fadell

The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be: "All things are made of atoms. — Bill Bryson

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats. — Arlene Francis

It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated. — Tahereh Mafi

Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week. — Jimmy Fallon

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid. — David J. C. MacKay

I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript? — Rick Yancey

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey. — A.B. Simpson

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.' — Nancy Gibbs