John Peel: You could see it as selfless dedication to the cause of public-service broadcasting or a shocking lack of ambition.
Wendy Carlos: To me, the project had a smile around the corners of the mouth.
Peel: Unfortunately it's in a field on the other side of the road.
Carlos: That's just how I feel.
Peel: It's been kind of both, really.
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Carlos: Sure. Sell your stock and get out of there.
Peel: The most obnoxious people I've ever met in my life.
Carlos: I want a tool that's bigger and better and capable, like a hammer you can build a house from it, you could even commit murder with it, or you could let it rust in the garage but anywhere within those extremes, there is a range of practical use, and that's the best kind of tools.
Peel: You were absolutely engulfed by them.
Carlos: Everybody predicts that we'll have HAL 9000.
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Peel: I became friends with the Australian engineers, and we'd sit up in the crow's nest and smoke dope.
Carlos: They considered me a real weird, crackpot.
Peel: [laughs] You feel mildly offended, but life's too short.
Carlos: Yes, of course. All that stuff.
Peel: It's the title of an old English folk song.
