American - Novelist | June 18, 1957 -
I like to travel and connect.
Richard Powers
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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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All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
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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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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
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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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Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.
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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
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