Owsley Stanley Quotes

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

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

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

I don’t like sitting at a keyboard.

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don’t need such big brains to catch fish.

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

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.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

Nobody is delineated, nobody is concentrated. There is a lot of extraneous stuff. Like for instance, the satellites that measure in the atmosphere, there is billions and billions and billions of bytes of data, only maybe 2% of which are actually useful. They don’t know what the rest are for, they don’t know what good they are.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people’s lives were.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

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