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Richard Powers Quotes

Everything interests me Picture Quote #1

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa Picture Quote #1

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race Picture Quote #1

In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with Picture Quote #1

I think that if the novel’s task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science Picture Quote #1

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers Picture Quote #1

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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. and for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn’t considered pathological, we are outside of time Picture Quote #1

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning Picture Quote #1

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities Picture Quote #1

The ‘information novel’ shouldn’t be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream Picture Quote #1

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I’ve wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years Picture Quote #1

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases Picture Quote #1

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Type a few lines of code, you create an organism Picture Quote #1

Reading is the last act of secular prayer Picture Quote #1

I like to travel and connect Picture Quote #1

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind Picture Quote #1

Evil is the refusal to see one’s self in others Picture Quote #1

When you’re sure of what you’re looking at, look harder Picture Quote #1

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We don’t consider the roles that we’re taking in making the world the way it is Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible Picture Quote #1

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work Picture Quote #1

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects Picture Quote #1

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected Picture Quote #1

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours Picture Quote #1

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs Picture Quote #1

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing Picture Quote #1

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states Picture Quote #1

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Everything interests me (Richard Powers Quotes) The Midwest is such a tabula rasa (Richard Powers Quotes) Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race (Richard Powers Quotes) In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with. (Richard Powers Quotes) I think that if the novel’s task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. (Richard Powers Quotes) The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers (Richard Powers Quotes) A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. and for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn’t considered pathological, we are outside of time (Richard Powers Quotes) The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning (Richard Powers Quotes) For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities (Richard Powers Quotes) The ‘information novel’ shouldn’t be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream (Richard Powers Quotes) I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I’ve wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years (Richard Powers Quotes) Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases (Richard Powers Quotes) Type a few lines of code, you create an organism (Richard Powers Quotes) Reading is the last act of secular prayer (Richard Powers Quotes) I like to travel and connect (Richard Powers Quotes) Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind (Richard Powers Quotes) Evil is the refusal to see one’s self in others (Richard Powers Quotes) When you’re sure of what you’re looking at, look harder (Richard Powers Quotes) We don’t consider the roles that we’re taking in making the world the way it is (Richard Powers Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible (Richard Powers Quotes) 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 Quotes) I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects (Richard Powers Quotes) Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected (Richard Powers Quotes) All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours (Richard Powers Quotes) We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs (Richard Powers Quotes) We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing (Richard Powers Quotes) What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states (Richard Powers Quotes)

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