Brian Eno Quotes

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

Something else has happened with computers.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Technology is fascinating.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

I like to think / it has to be!) / of a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors / and joined back to nature, / returned to our mammal / brothers and sisters, / and all watched over / by machines of loving grace.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups. Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers. It would be best for you to be in the former group.