#technician

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

#gambling #most #pleasant #quickest #roads

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

#child #confronting #fairy #fairy tales #him

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer. ↗

— Dick Dale

#buddy #buddy rich #could #doing #drummer

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#business #business world #everything #executive #knows

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#aged #any #brilliant #business #death

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#abstract #computer #control #fought #future

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down. ↗

— Callum McDougall

#budding #cards #comes #directors #down