It has been 25 years since Andy Warhol died. I often wonder what influence he would have had on the tech world. He believed in the visual art movement known as pop art so you can imagine the design creations he would have digitally produced.

Eliot and I went to see “Regarding Warhol, Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Friday night. We also got to see his permanent exhibit in Pittsburgh, PA when our daughter attended Carnegie Mellon University 10 years ago.

We marveled at some of the quotes Warhol was famous for and how they apply to our digital lives.

Here we go:

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of “work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.