Richard Powers

Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Richard Powers

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.

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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.

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Richard Powers

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

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Richard Powers

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

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Richard Powers

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

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Richard Powers

I like to travel and connect.

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Richard Powers