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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."
"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."
Explore more quotes by Luc Ferrari
"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing."
"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too."
"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."
"When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them."
"With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible."
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."
"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
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