Quotes About Analog

#1. Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.

Kevin Systrom

#2. No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

Anita Elberse

#3. By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Nicholas D. Evans

#4. I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

Adrian Younge

#5. I don't think much about the digital world ... because I am in the analog world!

William Eggleston

#6. He put an arm around me and helped me across the lawn into the passenger's seat. The inside was red and white as a strawberry sundae, with black analog gauges. It was inefficient and sprawling; it screamed of hubris and excess and obsolescence; it was America on wheels.

Mishell Baker

#7. Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

David Milne

#8. I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world.
[From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

Junot Diaz

#9. Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Tom Scholz

#10. Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

Adrian Belew

#11. eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is.

David Conger

#12. I'd advise all aspiring game designers not to aim for money when developing a game, because unfortunately it is very rare for game designers to be able to earn a living by developing analog games.

Klaus Teuber

#13. You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.

Dean Cavanagh

#14. There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.

Stanley Schmidt

#15. We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.

Evan Spiegel

#16. All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#17. Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

Kara Swisher

#18. I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

Markus Persson

#19. When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud ... the ground is shifting.

John Battelle

#20. In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

Douglas Rushkoff

#21. My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.

Oliver Sacks

#22. In music, we can still record analog and then do the post production in digital. In film, sooner or later, we're not even going to be able to film because they won't be able to process. The labs won't exist anymore. You'll just have to do it with digital.

Mathieu Demy

#23. Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

David Brin

#24. Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging.

Kevin Shields

#25. The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

Barton Gellman

#26. Oftentimes, when people cut a record from analog tape to vinyl, they digitize the music first; I did a little investigating and discovered that most vinyl records that I've ever heard were digitized before they were put onto vinyl.

Kevin Shields

#27. I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Tom Waits

#28. Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.

Philip Zimbardo

#29. discursive regimes of the late eighteenth century drew the figure of man into the sand, and even if he manages to survive the etching, typing, and storing of the late nineteenth-century analog media, he is certain to disappear with the compression of that sand into silicon.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

#30. I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

Martin Gore

#31. No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

Dave Grohl

#32. Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

Bruce Swedien

#33. I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

Joshua Mohr

#34. Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

Kode9

#35. There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is that two different theories that are too powerful must necessarily contradict each other.

Saharon Shelah

#36. One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff.

John Vanderslice

#37. We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.

Omar Ahmad

#38. I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.

Andrew Bird

#39. As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Henry Rollins

#40. Algorithms are crude. Computers are machines. Data science is trying to make digital sense of an analog world.

Christian Rudder

#41. I'm analog, Wall of Sound, old school to the core, and it's time to let my B side play.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#42. Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.

Jonathan Dee

#43. She was transcribing names and phone numbers from an old book to a new one. There were no addresses. Her friends had phone numbers only, a race of people with a seven-bit analog consciousness.

Don DeLillo

#44. The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

Samuel R. Delany

#45. A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Dave Grohl

#46. Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

Mark Shuttleworth

#47. Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

John Lydon

#48. Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences we ought to cheer as "genuine " and not those troublesome and inconvenient analog ones.
Looking at it all fucking backwards.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#49. I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

Baba Kalyani

#50. One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

Aleksandar Hemon

#51. I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

Randy Castillo

#52. Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Lou Gramm

#53. But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

Rob Sheffield

#54. We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

Jose Gonzalez

#55. One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Les Paul

#56. I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.

Colin Trevorrow

#57. I really love laser-cutting. I do a lot of laser-cut jewelry and laser-etched stationery. I'll even etch my food sometimes. You can download an image online and etch it onto a tortilla or a brownie. It's so cool to meld the digital and analog worlds together.

Brit Morin

#58. Many of the people libraries serve today are ill equipped to take advantage of all the great things about the digital present and future. Since libraries must be guided by those they serve, they will be awkwardly straddling the analog and the digital for some period of time.

John Palfrey

#59. Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

Ben Gibbard

#60. We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Neil Turok

#61. I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

Aaron Funk

#62. The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

Kevin Shields

#63. Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.

John Vanderslice

#64. The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

Pedro Meyer

#65. I had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left was essentially the benefits of the analog with none of the disadvantages.

Kevin Shields

#66. Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

Anton Corbijn

#67. When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

Dave Grohl

#68. I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.

Tony Visconti

#69. People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

Dave Grohl

#70. We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.

Sam De Jong

#71. Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Rob Glaser

#72. You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

Neil Gaiman

#73. I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

Kate Bush

#74. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Frank Herbert

#75. In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Steven Spielberg