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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
BRIAN ENO

Calm Space Thinking
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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Anything End never Outsider Something Think
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
BRIAN ENO

Decision Hands Ideas

A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

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