Great Audio Quotes

I
1. One can work within any structure.
2. Once one can work within any structure, some structures are more efficient than others.
3. There is no one structure which is universally appropriate.
4. Commitment to an aim within an inappropriate structure will give rise to the creation of an appropriate structure.
5. Apathy, i.e., passive commitment, within an appropriate structure will effect its collapse.
6. Dogmatic attachment to the supposed merits of a particular structure hinders the search for an appropriate structure.
7. There will be difficulty defining the appropriate structure because it will always be mobile, i.e., in process

II
8. There should be no difficulty in defining aim
9. The appropriate structure will recognise structures outside itself
10. The appropriate structure can work within any large structure
11. Once the appropriate structure can work within any large structure, some larger structures are more efficient than others.
12. There is no larger structure which is universally appropriate
13. Commitment to an aim by an appropriate structure within a larger, inappropriate structure will give rise to a large, appropriate structure
14. The quantitative structure is affected by qualitative action

III
15. Qualitative action is not bound by number
16. Any small unit committed to qualitative action can affect radical change on a scale outside its quantitative measure
17. Quantitative action works by violence and breeds reaction
18. Qualitative action works by example and invites reciprocation
19. Reciprocation between independent structures is a framework of interacting units which is itself a structure
20. Any appropriate structure of interacting units can work within any other structure of interacting units.
21. Once this is so, some structures of interacting units are more efficient than others.

-- Robert Fripp, liner notes from Let The Power Fall © EG Music Ltd 1981
 
"Nature abhors the vacuum tube." -- John R. Pierce, Bell Labs

The Frank Zappa quote in my signature line is another of my favorites, even though it's a music quote rather than an audio quote.
 
I
1. One can work within any structure.
2. Once one can work within any structure, some structures are more efficient than others.
3. There is no one structure which is universally appropriate.
4. Commitment to an aim within an inappropriate structure will give rise to the creation of an appropriate structure.
5. Apathy, i.e., passive commitment, within an appropriate structure will effect its collapse.
6. Dogmatic attachment to the supposed merits of a particular structure hinders the search for an appropriate structure.
7. There will be difficulty defining the appropriate structure because it will always be mobile, i.e., in process

II
8. There should be no difficulty in defining aim
9. The appropriate structure will recognise structures outside itself
10. The appropriate structure can work within any large structure
11. Once the appropriate structure can work within any large structure, some larger structures are more efficient than others.
12. There is no larger structure which is universally appropriate
13. Commitment to an aim by an appropriate structure within a larger, inappropriate structure will give rise to a large, appropriate structure
14. The quantitative structure is affected by qualitative action

III
15. Qualitative action is not bound by number
16. Any small unit committed to qualitative action can affect radical change on a scale outside its quantitative measure
17. Quantitative action works by violence and breeds reaction
18. Qualitative action works by example and invites reciprocation
19. Reciprocation between independent structures is a framework of interacting units which is itself a structure
20. Any appropriate structure of interacting units can work within any other structure of interacting units.
21. Once this is so, some structures of interacting units are more efficient than others.

-- Robert Fripp, liner notes from Let The Power Fall © EG Music Ltd 1981

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