Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

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.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

I'm not technical.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

By the work one knows the workman.

I'm a driver, and I love it.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.

Most of my friends are plumbers.

I'm actually an engineer.

I haven't met a rich technician

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.