23 Quotes by Charles Petzold

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.

A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

Some people believe that Moore’s Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015.

The flip side of this is that any information that can be reduced to a choice among two or more possibilities can be expressed using bits. Needless.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.