technical quotes

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

- Eric Hoffer
USradical activist andwriter. In1968 he helpedorganize violent anti-Vietnam    war    demonstrations    in    Chicago,    and    was prominent in the 'Chicago Seven' trial in 1969.  He was  active in public demonstrations until1986.

The philosophy which isso important in each of us isnot a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means† it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

-William James
  Pragmatism, lecture1.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you goahead and doitand youargueabout whatto doabout it onlyafter you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

-J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer
  'In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer', USAEC transcript of hearing before Personnel Security Board.

Facility is a dangerous thing.Where there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticising. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

-John French Sloan
  Gist of Art.