#technical

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'. ↗

— Paul Graham

#coincidence #dressing #good #good ideas #ideas

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#cameras #coffee #come #does #down

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #company #creative #group #had

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald. ↗

— Lena Horne

#aretha #aretha franklin #before #ella #ella fitzgerald

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#came #dramatist #economically #good #had

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#direction #firstly #international #move #national standards

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#country #crises #gap #had #intelligence

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#been #business #closest #closest friends #end

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. ↗

— John Cameron

#growth #into #job #medical #medical physics

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature. ↗

— Richard Owen

#every #every step #inquiries #man #nature