Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

I remember growing up in suburban New Jersey, and all the computer stores were like, 'Motherboard Mayhem' and all these cheesy names.

That's what I did growing up. Other than being on the computer, I was watching TV and movies. I make no apologies.

I was a nerd, growing up, I was really into computers and technology, and most of my friends were basically in that world as well.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.