Neil deGrasse Tyson

When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.

American Scientist

Guy Kawasaki

Many Android users aren't aware of some the things that Android can already do such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.

American Businessman

Will Self

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

English Author

Gary Hamel

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Heather Brooke

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

American Journalist

Kevin Systrom

Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.

Ben Sasse

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

American Politician

Mark Cuban

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

Freddie Wong

Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

American Director

Simon Mainwaring

Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.

Businessman

Often refers to tangible items, especially in the context of production or sales.

Physical Objects

Used broadly for various small devices, without specifying the exact function.

Versatile Term

Refers to software tools or features on electronic devices and applications.

Digital Function

Widgets vary in design and can be personalized on digital platforms.

Customizable Interface

Used when describing an object without needing to name or detail it.

General Placeholder

Helpful when the specific term for an item is unknown or unimportant.

Nonspecific Use

 Odds are I know somebody who's made a widget, and the minute you tell me that, I discount half of what you're saying from then on. Anything I don't understand, where I have to make the leap myself, in my own head, will stop the flow of the presentation. So you've got to take me through like a sixth-grader -- dub, dub, dub -- but without patronizing me.

David S. Rose: 10 things...

 They're making things worse. OK, let's talk about productivity for a second. Historically, productivity as we know it today was used during the industrial revolution. It was a system that measured performance based on consistent output. You clocked into your shift and were responsible for creating X number of widgets on the assembly line.

How burnout makes us...

 that's filled with lots of little widgets that are expanding on these. And these are looking in the blog world and the world of weblogs. He's analyzed basically all the weblogs out there that he's tracking. And he's tracking how many other weblogs linked to those weblogs, and so you have kind of an authority --

Steven Johnson: The Web...

 So that it has lots of services and transactions going on among people, so it's not dependent just on exporting one kind of widget or product. But, at the same time, each one is very connected to each other through high speed rail networks and highways and so forth and internationally to the global economy.

Mapping the Future of...

 instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click

Inside your computer -...

 probably in excess of one hundred plus thousand dollars in value in finished product Tripps business plan is to take homemade edibles into mass production anybody can make a pot brownie we manufacture thousands of widgets each

The "Willy Wonka" of...

 How we design, how do we organize, for more wisdom? So for example, many times, what's the smartest or the intelligent decision doesn't jive. So we'd say things like, let's agree that you're going to sell 57 widgets per week.

Ricardo Semler: Radical...

 who is sometimes hidden, and those are our suppliers. They are the connective tissue underneath many Uber drivers, widget makers, service employees. They're like an invisible life force that power our economy,

How businesses can serve...

 filled with the information we love that feels as natural and as simple as switching on lightbulb. And although it may seem inevitable, that what the public wants is watches and websites and widgets,

An Internet Without...

 world's greatest juggler and he was frowning and he finally asked can I see those so I proudly show him my clubs is that Philippe you've been had these are widgets they are completely out of

Widget

A small gadget or mechanical device.

Often appears as...

An application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access a service.

Often appears as...

An unnamed or unspecified thing or unit.

Often appears as...

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