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"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."

"The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content."

"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."

"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

"In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!"

"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."

"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."
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"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."


"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."


"Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out."


"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."


"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."


"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."


"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."


"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."


"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."
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