The ‘Momofuku Milk Bar’ cookbook is rather technical. I wanted it to feel like you were walking into the doors of our kitchen, it was your first day at work, and we were going to teach you everything.
We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we’ll take technical risks that nobody else will.
The funny thing was, with IT, I was never really a tech type of person: I was better with people, good at dealing with people. I had technical experience; I knew the nitty gritty. I could never be a programmer or anything, but I knew my way around.
The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn’t really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.
I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it’s not about technical prowess.
We aren’t showing off our muscles. We wear the tight-tailored jerseys for a technical reason. Defensive lineman are allowed to grab, so you don’t want a lot of loose material.
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven’t up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.
Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background’s completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one’s life, and I can’t say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
The leagues in the countries around us are probably more interesting and played at a higher level, but in general, we are happy with the way we have moved things forward with Ajax, together with Marc Overmars as technical director, to establish a squad that can compete at the highest level.
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
I really counted on my technical ability and my passing for everything. Then once you got to bigger stages and the professional level, you can get shoved off the ball and you need to be fit and you need to be at your top level at all times.
I think it’s a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
I’m not a very technical musician at all.
For me, some of the most intense creativity comes when something has to change for technical or design reasons, and you’re trying to find a way to make it fit the fiction.
There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.
When you have a sense of calling, whether it’s to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn’t just a casual choice, it’s a divine calling. It’s not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It’s emotional, theatrical and technical. It’s everything.
The Wonderstar collection is a fantastic fusion of Hollywood glamour and Wonderbra’s technical genius.
I wrote a great deal of a novel, ‘Winter’s Tale,’ on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful.
MLS is a league that is growing. What can I say? The league is more physical: the players here can play 90 minutes or more. There is a little bit more quality in Spain, because it’s more technical, but it’s difficult to say.
It’s hard enough to just be a good actor. When you’re on set, there’s everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don’t shadow the other person’s face. It’s a really technical process.
I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don’t need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.
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.
Technical people tend to be more ‘techie,’ and management people are more ‘managerial.’
In Evita I wasn’t really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.
In futsal, I picked up specific technical skills.
One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We’re much bigger than what people were in older times.
The problem with the screenplay is that it’s not literature, and it’s not a film. It’s a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.
The technical director’s role is very important – not just on contracts, not just on signing players and seeing through the philosophy but also in taking a bit of weight off the manager.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
I always wanted to have a technical career that was also creative. I have been extremely lucky in that sense to be able to combine those two things.
Nashville has gotten so big and too technical and too polished.
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
Long before my days at ESPN, the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer,’ or the ‘New York Daily News’ before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.
