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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
"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."
"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."
Explore more quotes by Robert Moog
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."
"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools."
"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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