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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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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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