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Quote by Owsley Stanley

“Your body gets old but your mind can always accept that.”

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Owsley Stanley, born on January 19, 1935, and passed away on March 13, 2011, was an engineer renowned for his unique skills and contributions to the music and entertainment industry. more

“First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought "Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid." I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves.”

People World Firsts Littles Reality Kids Able Remember Young Three Stuff Rooms Accepting Seeing Goes On Walking First Time Library New Things Volume Shelves Little Kid Renewal Acid Sparkling

Author:Owsley Stanley

“The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is, everything is part of reality. Which means that they can accept any new technology - it's not threatening to them, and they can still continue to maintain their traditional culture, even in the face of high technology.”

World Writing Mean Stills Reality Faces Culture Accepting Technology Traditional Visuals Threatening New Technology High Technology

Author:Owsley Stanley

“Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It will be able to talk to you. It will be able to translate from one language to another instantaneously. You will be able to give it instructions. You will be able to tell it stories. If it doesn't understand something, it will ask you.”

Ifs Giving Character Stories Seems Able Asks Language Produce Personality Computer Logic Instruction Translate Fuzzy

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“I don't like sitting at a keyboard.”

Sitting Keyboards

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“The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.”

Sound Higher Faster Phases Frequency Ambiguity Sample

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“You can't see a pistol bullet and you can't see a M14 bullet. One is traveling at 800 feet per second, the other is traveling at 4000, where you get to the point that you can't see it, that much faster than something you can't see is not physiologically interesting to you.”

Interesting Feet Faster Bullets Pistols

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“I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.”

People Thinking Manipulator

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“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.”

People Way Years Humans Kind Different Culture Interesting Style Happenings Years Ago Different Ways Very Interesting Resonance

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“I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.”

People Trying Work Out Checks Sure Thing Things Work Out

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“There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not - like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.”

People May Doe Shows Audience Stage Skills Performances Musical Muscles Usual

Author:Howard Rheingold

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