Analog Quotes

“You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.”
― Dean Cavanagh

“What if Loves are analogous to math? First, arithmetic, then geometry and algebra, then trig and quadratics…”
― J. Earp

“But Bennie knew that what he was bringing into the world was shit. Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Live fast in the digital! Die young in the analog!”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Through the passage of time there was one format that could rival the sound quality of any other, the analog reel-to-reel tape recorder, and this is her story. The reel-to-reel recorder was critical to the widespread surge in global music consumption in the 1950's and beyond, even sound engineers of today will tell you that the reel-to-reel format is extremely high in fidelity, and with the correct tape, the correct usage and right machine, wonders can still be recorded in the recording studio using magnetic reel-to-reel tape recorders”
― Dwayne Buckle, Analog: The Art & History Of Reel-To-Reel Tape Recordings

“Unlike a hard drive, paper doesn't crash.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“A letter? With your actual hand?”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, 21st Century Intolerant: A collection of short stories about the struggles of modern life, from the trivial to the terrifying.