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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.

Brian Eno

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
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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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Criped People See Undo Unless
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 seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
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
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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

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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