"These days, with a laptop and a few hundred dollars' worth of software, you can do way more than I could when I started out. But it's less stimulating to me. I think it's great that it's accessible, but I feel like less of an explorer if there are ten thousand other guys in the world who have the same kind of set-up." – interview with thomas dolby.

uh, and dolby's beatnik technology once initially created for the web obviously is now in most of the polyphonic nags called mobiles (maybe in your pocket, too).

update: well, seems i really got soaked into dolby's memories, his wonderful tongue-in-cheek descriptions of music business and his love and personal affection for music.