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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.

Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
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
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.

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