Technique Quotes - Page 26

• Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.

  Steve McConnell

  Errors, Code Quality, Simplicity

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.501, Pearson Education

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• Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Decision

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• NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

  Richard Bandler

  Attitude, Methodology, Trails

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• When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

  Richard Sennett

  Impossible, Standards

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• I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

  Jacques Pepin

  Hands, Class, Important

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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, Guitar

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• I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

  Joe Satriani

  Funny, Inspiring, Song

  BAM Magazine, April 06, 1990.

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• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Zoos, Guitar, One Day

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• The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

  Terry Gilliam

  Ideas, Stories, Use

  "Exclusive: Laika chasing Terry Gilliam for animated film" by Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. March 13, 2014.

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• The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come.  The professional is sly.  He knows that by toiling beside the front door of technique, he leaves room for genius to enter by the back.

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspiration, Believe, Skills

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.84, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Believe, Inspiration, Golf

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• The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Thinking, People

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• ...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

  George B. Ward

  Photography, Grace, Connections

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• The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Dream, Photography, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage

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• We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Medicine, Rely Upon

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.17, World Scientific

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• The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.

  Kurt Warner

  Tuning, Lines, May

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• The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Real, Technology, Thinking

  Rupert Sheldrake (2012). “Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery”, p.7, Deepak Chopra

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• I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Trying, Etc, Orbit

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• Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

  William Sims

  Engineering, Drug, Brain

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• I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Successful, Hands

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• Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  "Billy Graham’s grandson takes Christians to task: An interview with Tullian Tchividjian". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Ideas, Perfect, Difficulty

  "Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 80" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.

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• The artist must forget the audience,
  forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
  Then, the music speaks through the performance,
  and the performer and the listener will walk together
  with the soul of the composer, and with
  God.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Artist, Forget Everything, Soul

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• I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Wise, Thinking, Video

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