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"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."
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"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."
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"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
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"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it."
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"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."
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"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."
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"The world is a pile of grunge."
World
"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."
Fame
"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."
History
"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
Philosophy
"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it."
Computer
"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
Mercy
"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
Work
"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."
Art
"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more."
Work
"I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing."
Artist
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