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Dr NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE |
1943- ; Founding professor, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1 The video disc has nothing to do with movies! It is a book, a surrogate book. |
• New York magazine, 17 November 1980 |
| 2 People who use their interactive screens to book a salmon-fishing holiday in Scotland
might switch on a baseball game the next day to find themselves watching advertisements
for outdoor clothing or fly-fishing equipment in the commercial break. Over time
interactive television would build up such accurate profiles of individuals from their
viewing and buying habits that every advertisement would be individually tailored to meet
their wants and needs. One commercial might suggest you book a table at Lutece's for your
wedding anniversary tomorrow; another could recommend a Hermes tie to match that shirt you
bought last week; a third might remind you that you usually change your car around this
time and suggest you look at the new Lexus. |
• May 1994 |
| 3 I'm angry with the likes of Microsoft and Apple. They've paid no attention to making
computers easy to use. The problem with most computer companies is that they involve one
geek making computer programs for another geek. There is nothing for the man on the street. |
• Edinburgh Television Festival, August 1997 |
| 4 There isn't a digitally illiterate 10-year-old in the US. Even if they only play Sega
or Gameboy, they are used to the technology. |
• Edinburgh Television Festival, August 1997 |
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JEAN NEGULESCO |
1900-1993; Romanian-born American film director |
| ‘Writing for the new wide screen should be easy,’ I told my scriptwriter.
‘All you have to do is put your paper in the typewriter sideways.’ Well, he
didn’t laugh either. |
• ‘New medium—new methods’ |
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RANDY NEWMAN |
1944- ; American songwriter/singer, film composer |
| 1 The world isn't fair and I'm not very happy about that, but I'm not suicidal about it,
either. I was trying to think of how many really bad people I know. I could only name two
or three. And they are all film directors. |
• Interview, The Times Magazine, 3 July 1999 |
| 2 I don't see movies as the great American art form. It doesn't have the achievements
that literature has. Even television does better work than Hollywood—TV comedy like Frasier
and The Simpsons. I don't think there is a consistent supply of superior product in
motion pictures. I'll never do the music for a good movie because art-house pictures don't
pay. If I don't make money out of my albums that's all right. But not movies. It's too hard. |
• Interview, The Times Magazine, 3 July 1999 |
| 3 Picture a room with a window, a sofa and some chairs, a television turned on for the
night. Picture a woman, two children seated, a man lying there, their faces softly glowing
in the light. … If we had anything to say we'd bounce it off the screen: we were
watching and we couldn't look away. … We got comedy, tragedy, everything from A to B,
watching other people living, seeing other people play, having other people's voices fill
our minds. Thank you, Jesus. |
• 'My country', on Bad Love album, 1999
See also  Kurt Vonnegut |
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