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  • Technical achievement without vision is only craft. -- Carole Katchen
  • Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go. -- Eric Fellner
  • Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. -- Christopher Zeeman
  • Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. -- Vernor Vinge
  • Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix. -- Bruce Schneier
  • Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people. -- Y. C. James Yen
  • Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. -- Sylvie Guillem
  • Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. -- Rod Taylor
  • Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact -- Jacques Ellul
  • Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. -- Edward Dmytryk
  • Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader. -- Joanie Connell
  • Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. -- D.T. Suzuki
  • Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties." "Oh?" "Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha. -- Gail Carriger
  • Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined. -- Kode9
  • Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes. -- Natalia Makarova
  • Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. -- George Orwell
  • Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. -- Maurice Saatchi
  • Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. -- Derrick Jensen
  • Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. -- Albert Einstein
  • I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur. -- Edmund Hillary
  • Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. -- Stephen Hawking
  • As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
  • It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team. -- David Leslie
  • My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. -- John C. Maxwell
  • 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
  • Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills. -- David D. Burns
  • Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
  • I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. -- Joseph Rotblat
  • You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. -- Helena Bonham Carter
  • Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with. -- Sung Kang
  • When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • 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
  • I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school. -- Douglas R. Oberhelman
  • Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. -- Seth Shostak
  • When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. -- Lewis Thomas
  • To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together. -- Richard Hamming
  • I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person. -- Lakshmi Mittal
  • My journey is technical complexity. -- Peter Wolf
  • I enjoy learning technical details. -- Ken Follett
  • Our problems are technical, not political -- Jacque Fresco
  • Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. -- Quintilian
  • Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions. -- Genrich Altshuller
  • Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. -- David Packer
  • Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill -- Warren Buffett
  • This could only happen in a technical college. -- Prince Philip
  • Jargon: any technical language we do not understand. -- Mason Cooley
  • Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking. -- Rose Byrne
  • Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. -- Linus Torvalds
  • There is a technical solution to every political problem, -- Edward Snowden
  • Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. -- Niklaus Wirth
  • Music has nothing to do with your technical ability. -- Robin Trower
  • Look, you need technical skills to run a company. -- Carly Fiorina
  • A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. -- Heywood Broun
  • If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding. -- Martin Fowler
  • There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer. -- Mick Jagger
  • The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational. -- Franz Stampfl
  • I've been working on the lost history of technical women. -- Megan Smith
  • A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's. -- Jack Ma
  • I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming. -- Jenni Olson
  • I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music. -- Sade Adu
  • James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. -- Roger Ebert
  • I would be better at my job if I were technical. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements. -- Zinedine Zidane
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  • The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. -- Cliff Shaw
  • When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things. -- Harry Lloyd
  • And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world -- Jacques Ellul
  • The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player. -- Ely Culbertson
  • The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics. -- Al Seckel
  • The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all. -- Johnny Thunders
  • One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water. -- John Lasseter
  • I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place. -- Eric Bana
  • Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment. -- Leonard Rossiter
  • I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge. -- Jake Pitts
  • The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. -- Garrett Hardin
  • A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. -- Stanley Smith Stevens
  • Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. -- Jacques Ellul
  • Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry. -- Richard King
  • If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities. -- Paul A. Baran
  • Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. -- Leon Kass
  • Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. -- Albert Einstein
  • The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. -- Beeban Kidron
  • There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. -- Douglas Hurd
  • That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever. -- J. J. Johnson
  • What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down. -- Anna Popplewell
  • You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link. -- Steve House
  • I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment. -- Patrick Lussier
  • My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way. -- Brian Boitano
  • Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. -- Tom Barrett
  • I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. -- Imre Lakatos
  • An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. -- Allan Bloom
  • I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer. -- Ronda Rousey
  • Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company. -- Steve Jobs
  • Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections -- Joshua Waitzkin
  • There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions. -- Samuel Florman
  • Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content. -- Booker Little
  • An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. -- Edward Weston
  • IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership. -- Daniel Goleman
  • We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage. -- Christo
  • Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living. -- Melissa Marr
  • In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis. -- Theo van Doesburg
  • It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all. -- Arto Lindsay
  • I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home. -- Ron Kind
  • The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. -- Pope Francis
  • I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why. -- Laurent Brancowitz
  • The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries. -- Troy Vincent
  • Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines. -- Christian Hosoi
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