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"And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that."

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."

"China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies."

"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds."

"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

"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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"Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style."

"People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do."

"People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image."

"In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience."

"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."

"What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds."

"If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room."

"Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music."
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