Richard Powers Quotes

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• I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
• Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.
• 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…
• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of…
• When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
• What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
• 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…
• Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
• For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
• 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.
• I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
• Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
• 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…
• The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
• Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
• My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
• Everything interests me.
• I like to travel and connect.
• 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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