Technical Quotes

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The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order… — Jacques Ellul
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we… — Jacques Ellul
Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many. — Steven Morrissey
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. — Czeslaw Milosz
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these… — L. Ron Hubbard
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can… — H. L. Mencken
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for… — Ben Shahn
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for… — Graeme Le Saux
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients,… — Joe McNally
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs,… — Mary Ellen Mark
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which… — Alan Hansen
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in… — Jim Brown
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing...… — Martha Van Rensselaer
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what… — William James

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