Best Technical Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The greatest innovators aren’t those who possessed great technical knowledge; they are visionaries who can see life from multiple aspects.”

People Joy Knowledge Great Visionaries Greatest Technical Inventer Life Aspect

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Every line of code carries two risks: one technical, one human.”

Human Nature Code Technical

Book:The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens

Source: The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens

“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears. ("Horizon and Vision" )”

Thinking Mind Vision Visible Horizon Conception Fears Changes Material Technical

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“His thoughts went to Kismaayo, and lately, particularly of Abdi. If there were a hero in this story, it was Abdi. Jon thought, this young man from Maine had left that war weary husk of a country called Somalia and had come to these United States of America to pursue the dream of happiness, security, and hope.”

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Book:Las Vegas on Twelve Dollars a Day

Source: Las Vegas on Twelve Dollars a Day

“The architectural competition illustrates processes of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative, creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.”

Social Dilemmas Technical

Book:Architectural Competitions - Histories and Practice

Source: Architectural Competitions - Histories and Practice

“President Obama launched the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to the world at a time we knew there were major technical problems with it!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I could never understand why the company did not cancel the launch of the DeSoto Solar Farm by President Obama, given how many dangerous technical problems it was having at the time.”

Company Dangerous Problems President Obama Understand Never Desoto Solar Farm Launch Technical Cancel

Author:Steven Magee

“Due to the dangerous technical problems that emerged at the Desoto Solar Farm, I had assessed it as not being capable of producing 25 megawatts into the electrical grid as built.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 'Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.' ... If mathematics is indeed the science of self-evident things, mathematicians are a phenomenally stupid lot to waste the tons of good paper they do in proving the fact. Mathematics is abstract and it is hard, and any assertion that it is simple is true only in a severely technical sense—that of the modern postulational method which, as a matter of fact, was exploited by Euclid. The assumptions from which mathematics starts are simple; the rest is not.”

Hard Science Mathematics Math Abstract Mathematician Euclid Technical Estimates Felix Klein

Book:Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science

Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science

“Never lie to an engineer about their specialty, as they will know that you are lying to them.”

Wisdom Lying Knowledge Lie Know Never Expert Specialty Engineer Technical

Author:Steven Magee

“... theory is good for you because studying it expands your mind... Specific technical knowledge, though useful today, becomes outdated in just a few years. Consider instead the abilities to think, to express yourself clearly and precisely, to solve problems, and to know when you haven’t solved a problem. These abilities have lasting value. Studying theory trains you in these areas.”

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Book:Introduction to the Theory of Computation

Source: Introduction to the Theory of Computation

“Don’t get technical. You built it, some ignorant yahoos came in and did something to it—” “We scientists call that ‘whacking the shit out of it.’” “Getting technical again...”

Ignorant Technical Whack Yahoos

Book:Mammoth

Source: Mammoth

“I was never very good in customer service because my technical skills caused me to side with the customers!”

Skills Customers Good Service Never Customer Side Warranty Technical Caused

Author:Steven Magee

“Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Most managers I have worked for have told me I have some of the best technical skills they have seen in an electrical and electronics engineer.”

Skills Managers Best Electrical Most Electronics Engineer Seen Worked Technical

Author:Steven Magee

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.” He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!” (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”

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Author:Michael G. Kramer

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.” He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

Action Peace Danger Conflict Chaos Soldier Corruption Brothers Battlefield Technical

Book:A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

Source: A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two