“ 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, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. ”
- Jim Valvano- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. ”
- Geoff Davis- Copy
- 577
“ If you want to make good photographs, a camera has to be second nature to you. Devoting too much attention to technical decisions can interfere with your creative processes. ”
- Robert Farber- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It sounds all very sort of technical, but in fact it was very much a kind of bootlace affair. I mean, in the Abbey Road in those days was a fairly primitive place by today's standards. ”
- George Martin- Copy
- 2.5K
“ When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ”
- Robert Moog- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
- 830
“ I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ”
- Benoit Mandelbrot- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. ”
- Lester B. Pearson- Copy
- 954
“ Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. ”
- Christopher Zeeman- Copy
- 1.4K
“ At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
- 3.1K
“ After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.2K
“ In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 885
“ Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation. ”
- Tom Naylor- Copy
- 4K
“ Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2K
“ I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ”
- Walter Murch- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Encryption…is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government… It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty. ”
- Esther Dyson- Copy
- 3K
“ Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. ”
- Art Garfunkel- Copy
- 2.4K
“ People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner… ”
- Sarah Michelle Gellar- Copy
- 1.4K
“ In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. ”
- Dave Holland- Copy
- 200
“ We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. ”
- James Jeffords- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Alpinism is the whole ball of wax, not just one aspect of climbing. You have to know how to live in the mountains, travel, and blend in the technical skills with speed and efficiency. In rock climbing you might focus on a pitch for only a few moments, while in alpine climbing your focus can go on for months. ”
- Michael Kennedy- Copy
- 98
“ It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers. ”
- Gordon Moore- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices. ”
- David Cassidy- Copy
- 568
“ Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belize and the Republic of China in 1989, Taiwan has been good to Belize. Over the years, the ties of friendship have been strengthened through a dynamic technical agricultural mission and economic cooperation in the housing and infrastructural development, trade, investment and tourism promotion. ”
- Said Musa- Copy
- 74
“ The art of an artist must be his own art. It is… always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. ”
- Emil Nolde- Copy
- 280
“ To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. ”
- Ivars Peterson- Copy
- 585
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