Stewart Brand Quotes

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.

Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

It's quite amazing what 3D is doing to movies. Just simple things like a paper plane flying at you or flower petals fluttering about are wonderful.

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.

I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.