#technical

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#arm #available #back #camps #cast

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. ↗

— George Crumb

#arise #composers #deeper #discussions #i

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. ↗

— George Crumb

#certain #composers #confusing #consider #diversity

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#become #creating #creativity #field #kind

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party. ↗

— Hans Frank

#adviser #college #german #hitler #i

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#chief #concern #diagrams #endeavors #equations

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#could #cross #did #effect #fact

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#enlarging #expression #impressionists #innovations #led

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#find #i #i see #interested #interesting