“ She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost. 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. 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 abo… Richard Powers
“ My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. 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. 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 sc… 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. Richard Powers
“ And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented. But the thing spills out into the world like one of those African antelopes that fal… Richard Powers
“ I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. 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… Richard Powers
“ It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hur… Richard Powers
“ Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and… Richard Powers
“ Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the differe… Richard Powers
