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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.

Brian Eno

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good

But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.

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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.

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