Richard Powers
Born: 18 June 1957, Evanston, Illinois
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- All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours. permalink
Richard Powers - Galatea 2.2 (1995) - Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others. permalink
Richard Powers - For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am? permalink
Richard Powers - Galatea 2.2 (1995) - I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. permalink
Richard Powers - Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. permalink
Richard Powers - 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 are infected. permalink
Richard Powers - Generosity (2011) - On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. permalink
Richard Powers - The Echo Maker (2006) - Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. permalink
Richard Powers - The Gold Bug Variations (1991) - Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it. permalink
Richard Powers - Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest. permalink
Richard Powers - Galatea 2.2 (1995) - The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it. permalink
Richard Powers - Galatea 2.2 (1995) - 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 family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator's mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here's spring. permalink
Richard Powers - Generosity (2011) - 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 ot 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. permalink
Richard Powers - The Gold Bug Variations (1991) - What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump? permalink
Richard Powers - When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder. permalink
Richard Powers - Generosity (2011)
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