Brian Eno Quotes

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

What I love about 'Toast' is that there's always new stuff you can do with him.

In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.