As a society I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs it's about song writing.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for Nature cannot be fooled.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

In England and Europe we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno ambient house ambient hip-hop ambient this ambient that.

You can't really imagine music without technology.