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Brian Eno

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
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
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something

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