There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn't designed to do. I have this relationship with my synthesizers. I've had them for so long, and I've never had them serviced, so that now practically all of their functions operate differently from what they were designed to do. They do very interesting things now, but that means nobody else can use them either.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.