Technical Quotes

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears. ("Horizon and Vision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“His thoughts went to Kismaayo, and lately, particularly of Abdi. If there were a hero in this story, it was Abdi. Jon thought, this young man from Maine had left that war weary husk of a country called Somalia and had come to these United States of America to pursue the dream of happiness, security, and hope.”
― Mike Bennett, Las Vegas on Twelve Dollars a Day

“Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The greatest innovators aren’t those who possessed great technical knowledge; they are visionaries who can see life from multiple aspects.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”
― Herbert Read

“... theory is good for you because studying it expands your mind... Specific technical knowledge, though useful today, becomes outdated in just a few years. Consider instead the abilities to think, to express yourself clearly and precisely, to solve problems, and to know when you haven’t solved a problem. These abilities have lasting value. Studying theory trains you in these areas.”
― Michael Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation

“We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.”
― Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom

“Speed masks accuracy”
― Derek Tate

“Flow can be described as the icing on the cake”
― Derek Tate

“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 'Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.' ... If mathematics is indeed the science of self-evident things, mathematicians are a phenomenally stupid lot to waste the tons of good paper they do in proving the fact. Mathematics is abstract and it is hard, and any assertion that it is simple is true only in a severely technical sense—that of the modern postulational method which, as a matter of fact, was exploited by Euclid. The assumptions from which mathematics starts are simple; the rest is not.”
― Eric Temple Bell, Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science

“Feedback is only valuable if the person giving it knows what they are talking about; feedback from an idiot is white noise that will damage you and from which you will learn nothing.”
― Phil Beadle

“Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.”
― Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

“Never lie to an engineer about their specialty, as they will know that you are lying to them.”
― Steven Magee

“The architectural competition illustrates processes of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative, creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.”
― Jonas E Andersson, Architectural Competitions - Histories and Practice

“In the long run, your technical skills won’t matter as much as your core principles will.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“I was never very good in customer service because my technical skills caused me to side with the customers!”
― Steven Magee

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

“Due to the dangerous technical problems that emerged at the Desoto Solar Farm, I had assessed it as not being capable of producing 25 megawatts into the electrical grid as built.”
― Steven Magee

“President Obama launched the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to the world at a time we knew there were major technical problems with it!”
― Steven Magee

“I could never understand why the company did not cancel the launch of the DeSoto Solar Farm by President Obama, given how many dangerous technical problems it was having at the time.”
― Steven Magee

“Most managers I have worked for have told me I have some of the best technical skills they have seen in an electrical and electronics engineer.”
― Steven Magee

“Don’t get technical. You built it, some ignorant yahoos came in and did something to it—”
“We scientists call that ‘whacking the shit out of it.’”
“Getting technical again...”
― John Varley, Mammoth