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)
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. View quote
Richard Powers
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. View quote
Richard Powers
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. View quote
Richard Powers
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours. View quote
Richard Powers
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. View quote
Richard Powers
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. View quote
Richard Powers
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. View quote
Richard Powers
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. View quote
Richard Powers
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big. View quote
Richard Powers
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. (Richard Powers)
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. View quote
Richard Powers
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible. View quote
Richard Powers
Everything interests me. View quote
Richard Powers
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. View quote
Richard Powers
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. View quote
Richard Powers
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. View quote
Richard Powers
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race. View quote
Richard Powers
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. View quote
Richard Powers
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. View quote
Richard Powers
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. (Richard Powers)
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. View quote
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. View quote
Richard Powers
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. View quote
Richard Powers
I like to travel and connect. View quote
Richard Powers