Brian Eno Quotes

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

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

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

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

Technological advances have brought our nation to a point where momentous public choices are inescapable.

Technology can change the world and improve our lifestyles.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

Technology is going to be good for football, but it will take time to adjust. The important thing is that the games have rhythm; at the beginning, it will be complicated, but there are plays that require it.

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.