In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

FUN + Learning = The Best Educational Experience

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

You can never please everyone you cross paths with, but there is no excuse not to satisfy your positive inner-self.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

History at its best is vicarious experience.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.