I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Everything works out how it should.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.