Technical Quotes

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There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating… — Linus Torvalds
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said,… — Jim Valvano
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. — Niklaus Wirth
Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements. — Zinedine Zidane
There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the… — Viswanathan Anand
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school… — Greg Graffin
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… — Herbert Marcuse
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?… — Thor Heyerdahl
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… — Truman Capote
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. — Graham Greene
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost totalâ€¦ Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the… — John Irving
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can… — Paul Tillich
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.… — Frank O'Hara

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