#technical

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#find #i #i see #interested #interesting

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#education #experience #gain #had #i

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#know #only #technical #technical things #things

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#good #growing #growth #life #spiritually

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#circles #frankly #holds #important #lot

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally. ↗

— Bob Weinstein

#emotionally #fear #only #paralyze #prepare

Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions. ↗

— Edward Witten

#along #benefit #big #depends #describe

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other. Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe. The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#catastrophe #human-perfection #technical-perfection #technology #titanism

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#between #clash #epistemology #mere #point

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#apologize #because #big #button #comedy