Rene Burri Quotes

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Whenever you can, count.

We are much better at creating complex technologies than we are at controlling them.

All bureaucracies have to be weeded and watched.

Have read it carefully. None of the items does damage to the fundamental interest of our country. Endorsed.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.