Challenges of the LHC: the detector challenge

The quote I remember must date from the mid 1980’s or a little bit later. It says: “we think we know how to build a high energy, high luminosity hadron collider — we do not have the technology to build a detector for it; for a high energy, high luminosity linear electron-Cpositron collider the situation is just the opposite”. Clearly the decision was taken to first choose the former of these “impossible” routes towards new discoveries and to, somehow, make the necessary progress in detector technology to allow detection and analysis of complex and rare final states resulting from proton-proton collisions at very high energy.