Dave Grohl Quotes

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

An e-book is not a physical book. That point might seem trite until you stop for a moment to think how much simpler it is, in a certain sense, to destroy electronic than physical traces.

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.

The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.