Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.
I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.
I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.
I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
