William Landay Quotes

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

I'm just a little artsy-fartsy computer dude.

I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.