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Ikue Mori

"Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine."

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"Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."

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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."

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"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."

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"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."

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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."

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"With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over."
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"So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums."
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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."
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"I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then."
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"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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"Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity."
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"I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments."
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"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great."
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"I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it."
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"Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York."
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