"Most
of the smart people I know want nothing to do with politics. We avoid
it like the plague—like Edge avoids it, in fact. …We expect other
people to do it for us, and grumble when they get it wrong. We feel that
our responsibility stops at the ballot box, if we even get that far.
After that we're as laissez-faire as we can get away with. … What
worries me is that while we're laissez-ing, someone else is faire-ing." –
Brian Eno (Musician/Composer)
I like this quote partly just for the way he innovates linguistically with the French phrase laissez-faire.
What I'm listening to right now.
Talking Heads, "Listening Wind." (Produced by – guess who? – Brian Eno).