The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

-Casals, Pablo
Quoted in  Julian Lloyd Webber The Song of the Birds (1985).

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forcedöby what? Bya system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

-Fromm, Erich
  The Sane Society.

I never had technique.

-Oerter, Al(fred)
  In the NewYork Times,16 May.

Le style, pour l'e¤  crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

-Proust, Marcel
' 1927  A la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve¤ ' .

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  'Can a Scientific Community Be Stable?', Lloyd Roberts lecture to the Royal Society of Medicine, 29 Nov.