#tech

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#because #being #cook #cooked #dinner

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#because #describe #every #feel #good

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? ↗

— Edvard Munch

#developed #go #technique #why

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine. ↗

— Frankie Muniz

#classes #else #feel #good #guess

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

#20th century #age #artistic #became #century

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#company #data #files #hear #million

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#british #clifford #coach #eventually #fantastic

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#america #century #change #constant #designed

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies). ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#already #because #body #call #christmas

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. ↗

— John von Neumann

#although #appear #be careful #careful #computer