Brian Eno Quotes

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

Patents should be for technological innovations. So a program for a new machine tool should be patentable but a non-technological innovation, such as grammar-checking software for a word-processor, should not be.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

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.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.