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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."
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"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."
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"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."
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"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."
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"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."
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"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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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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"I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer."
Music


"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."
Computer


"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."
Music


"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."
Family


"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music."
Music


"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
Performance


"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."
Design


"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools."
Music
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