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Thomas Dolby

"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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Akshay Vasu

"Better be alone than in bad company."

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Akshay Vasu

"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."

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Akshay Vasu

"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm not fit company for man or beast."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."

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Akshay Vasu

"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."

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Akshay Vasu

"Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics."

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Akshay Vasu

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press."

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Thomas Dolby
"From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened."

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Thomas Dolby
"The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad."

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Thomas Dolby
"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."

Company

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Thomas Dolby
"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."

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Thomas Dolby
"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."

Music

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Thomas Dolby
"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."

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Thomas Dolby
"The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it."

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Thomas Dolby
"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."

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Thomas Dolby
"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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Thomas Dolby
"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."

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