I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

I don't like sitting at a keyboard.

The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

Your body gets old but your mind can always accept that.

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.