I Was Never Worried That

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.

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.

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.

I'm An Engineer. I See Myself As A Toolmaker And The Musicians Are My Customers... They Use My Tools.

Back In The 40s And Early 50s, Building Simple Electronic Projects Was A Popular Hobby Of Many People. Back Then, You Could Buy, You Know, A Few Parts And - With Tubes And Build Something On Your Kitchen Table, And It Would Actually Work.