Quotes About Technology

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.