Technical Quotes
638 quotes by 568 authors
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In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a…
— Richard Askey
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It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical…
— John Negroponte
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I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and…
— Rodney A. Smolla
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The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret…
— Michel de Certeau
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According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing…
— Igor Sikorsky
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And…
— Walter Wriston
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Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to…
— Tim Hughes
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I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.
— John Carmack
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The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory…
— George Steiner
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All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to…
— Jerry Saltz
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I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it.…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
— Linus Torvalds
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Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
— Jacques Ellul
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And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
— Jacques Ellul
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Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
— Jacques Ellul
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I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical…
— Philippe Starck
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I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of…
— Bob Balaban
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The big, strong, tough guy goes to class, and he keeps getting tapped by the skinny, technical guy. It begins to change him. It makes…
— Relson Gracie
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