I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters today it is 4 000 meters.
Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
The point of that is if you look at Walgreen's history they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile still organic.
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do it always ends up being more about technology and sets and flash and dash forgetting the main thing which is interesting people saying interesting important things.
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I'm very good with technology I always have been and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them but a source of fun and amusement.
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor and my stepfather who raised me along with my mother is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first I wanted to work in the theatre but there was something about the ambience of film especially American films that always attracted me.
I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said 'Now go dance.' So for me dance has always been about self-expression.
I always wanted to be a teacher.
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young and my father didn't approve of it so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress my mother was very supportive. She always said to me 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought 'Well if acting doesn't work for him he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately the acting worked out.