Synthesized Quotes

#1. Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Douglas Adams

#2. Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.

David Mitchell

#3. In January 2006, Phantom of The Opera broke the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, overtaking Cats and reminding us what real entertainment is about: candles, dry ice, big hair, and the sort of synthesized chord progressions only achieved by a collapse at the keyboard.

Emma Brockes

#4. In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Barry Commoner

#5. Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#6. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

Toni Morrison

#7. In the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used so much - every relatively cheap TV show eventually had it because it's not expensive. It's just one guy doing the whole soundtrack. So it was overdone.

Giorgio Moroder

#8. That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

Glenn Frey

#9. Nicotine had been isolated and synthesized in the nineteenth century. In pure form, it took an ounce at most to kill the average adult.

Deborah Blum

#10. Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.

Craig Venter

#11. The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

George Crumb

#12. I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

Mike Gordon

#13. It created a murmur of voices, from which no single word could be discerned. Instead, it synthesized the sound of bees buzzing around in a mad swarm, angered by a breach of their hive.

Ashley DiMuzio

#14. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable - slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

Frank Herbert

#15. The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#16. Shame must be accepted to be effective.

Seth Godin

#17. Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not
and decides to take offence.

Anton Chekhov

#18. Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

Adrien Brody

#19. This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}

Adolf Von Baeyer

#20. Call him Judas if you want
but he did it for reasons
much older than silver.

Toby Barlow

#21. This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Pete Hamill

#22. National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.

Adolf Hitler