Richard Powers quotes - page 2

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense. (Richard Powers)
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. View quote
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Type a few lines of code, you create an organism. View quote
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases. View quote
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What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like living, which amounts to the same thing, was not the accumulations of Gnostic power, fixing of formulas for the names of God, stockpiling brutal efficiency, accomplishing the sadistic myth of progress. the purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it. View quote
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. View quote
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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling? View quote
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. View quote
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. View quote
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