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Quotes About Technical

Il y a une impossibilité tecnique à raconter le sublime. Soit on n'est pas intéressant, soit on est comique.
~ Amelie Nothomb
We need a senator who fights for things like affordable health care, college and technical school, not tax cuts for wealthy donors. That doesn't mean free college or Medicare for All, I'm against that.
~ Amy McGrath
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
~ Jaron Lanier
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
~ Richard King
The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day. [Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]
~ Richard Rhodes
The technical term for discounting of this general form that starts out high and then declines is quasi-hyperbolic discounting. If you don't know what "hyperbolic" means, that shows good judgement on your part in what words to incorporate in your vocabulary.
~ Richard Thaler
Just as bad money drives out good, the broad, deep, inclusive renaissance mind is being driven out by the narrow, specialized, technical mind.
~ Dee Hock
Erythropoietin is usually called a hormone, but technically it fits the definition of a cytokine because it is made on demand rather than stored in vesicles.
~ Dee Unglaub Silverthorn
Standing side by side children with our heads together, we are trying to understand their learning based on what we observe as they use the social, technical, symbolic, and material resources at their disposal.
~ Denny Taylor
Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.
~ Derek Ashmore
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
~ Klaus Fuchs
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
~ Ai Weiwei
For purposes of examining the software market itself, it will be helpful to sort kinds of software by how completely the service they offer is describable by open technical standards, which is well correlated with how commoditized the underlying service has become.
~ Eric S. Raymond
In point of fact, now that sound has given proof that it came not to destroy but to fulfill the Old Testament of the cinema, we may most properly ask if the technical revolution created by the sound track was in any sense an aesthetic revolution.
~ André Bazin
neorealism is more an ontological position than an aesthetic one. That is why the employment of its technical attributes like a recipe do not necessarily produce it, as the rapid decline of American neorealism proves.
~ André Bazin
As more actors gained access to the design process, a wider range of valuative considerations would inform technical choices. These formal changes would result in new technical designs and new ways of achieving the efficiencies that characterize modern technological activity. Whether
~ Andrew Feenberg
2012 the Pentagon said it wanted to buy fewer F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes than had been planned—the single-engine fighter has been plagued by cost overruns and technical glitches—but the contractors and their friends on Capitol Hill vowed to fight the decision.
~ Robert B. Reich
Of course bad code can be cleaned up. But it's very expensive.
~ Robert C. Martin
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
~ Robert Carlyle
The sophisticated investor is someone who has money and understands both fundamental investment techniques as well as technical trading techniques.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.
~ Genichi Taguchi
Change is impossible until senior business executives realize that software problems are not technical issues, but are significant business issues.
~ Alan Cooper
Grants to universities doubled, and a federal technical and vocational training program expanded schools and kept hundreds of thousands of students from an overcrowded labour market.
~ Desmond Morton
decentralized control is not simply a philosophy; it is a set of technical skills that can be developed and practiced.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen