Technical Limitations Quotes

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

High Tech is not merely a technical matter.

There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

I used to be a computer engineer, and I can make really good code, and we can make systems that work really well, and we can make the application a great experience, but when you have to translate bits to atoms, you need folks who are used to working with city governments, with state governments, and so I like to say we're in a political campaign.

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

You can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you.

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.