Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Richard Powersis an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 June 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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florida found law prevent
I will say this. I have researched Florida law and not found anything that would prevent the enforcement of those covenants.
effort move sort sweep
I think this is really an effort by Nortel to sort of sweep the decks (and) move forward.
content face glad normal people
I think things will be back to normal very soon, ... Let's face it. The content that they put out is very good, very popular. I think people are just glad that they're back.
activity book considered form hearing hours human last outside private retreat silent time unfolding voices
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
determine itself technology tends work
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
states equal sentences
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
prayer reading lasts
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
who-i-am occupation rewards
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
forever faces steps
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.
body use music-is
The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.
flower writing design
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.
doors awful possibility
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
brain world way
All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
bigs big-picture seems
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.