I go and see anything that's visually new any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different but someone using it will.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it so it's part of everyday life.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal and with them men.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner my acting teacher told us. When you create a character it's like making a chair except instead of making someting out of wood you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.