Segment 8
Peoples Archive interview
Context: I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.
“If you want to think what nobody else thinks, ask a question that nobody else asks.”
“All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.”
Song History
Paragraph 1 (p. 7 of Welcome to the Monkey House)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968), "Harrison Bergeron" (1961)
"Sensitive Artist"
Lyrics, Fluting on the Hump (1987)
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."
“It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”
Source: The Sweetest Thing
Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 22
Context: I was heading for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
