Quotes About Technology

In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

I used to pass by a large computer system with the feeling that it represented the summed-up knowledge of human beings. It reassured me to think of all those programs as a kind of library in which our understanding of the world was recorded in intricate and exquisite detail.

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded. Our findings changed the world's understanding of how atoms interact with high-intensity light.

People are more willing to say things when they don't know they're being recorded.

History has shown that time and market forces provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology is a video recorder, a personal computer, an MP3 player, or now the Net.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach more people, have also killed things that were happening before in the recording studio. Now, most of the time, there are no real musicians in the studio; it's people with sequencers and things.

I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They're conscious of the fact that people can - even from mobile phones - begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs... so they're a lot more hesitant to play them.

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.