Technical Quotes

638 quotes by 568 authors

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to… — Bruno Rossi
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has… — Carl David Anderson
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and… — Christian Lous Lange
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge… — Ernst Stuhlinger
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only… — Avinash Persaud
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. — Maurice Saatchi
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s. — Stewart Brand
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent… — Paul Virilio
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic… — Max Weber
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and… — Paul von Hindenburg
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more… — Ted Nelson
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone… — Yves Tanguy
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge. — Roger Deakins
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with… — Perry Farrell
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or… — Adam Fuss
So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day â€” maybe even a bit worse… — Paul Krugman
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. — Albrecht Durer
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. — Vernor Vinge
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with… — Maya Deren
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the… — W. Eugene Smith

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