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"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company."

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."

"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."

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"At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it."

"I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression."

"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."

"The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys."

"The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now."

"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

"I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be."

"Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong."

"Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together."

"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."
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