“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”
— Richard Powers
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What we can do should never by
“What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.”
— Richard Powers
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Category: technology
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My goal for technology has always been
“My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.”
— Richard Powers
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I like to travel and connect.
“I like to travel and connect.”
— Richard Powers
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I really like science because it seems
“I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.”
— Richard Powers
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This idea that a book can either
“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.”
— Richard Powers
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Category: politics
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Science is not about control. It is
“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
— Richard Powers
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Category: science
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