#technique

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#skills #specific #takes #technique #very

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#carried #coding #creates #future #generation

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#technique #transition #work

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver! ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#critical #entire #entire universe #essential #extreme

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗

— John Gardner

#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#music #others #technique #value #yourself

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#i #interested #learn #moment #more

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#because #diligently #glad #guitar #guitar players

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#class #great #great pride #guitarist #guy