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"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 science.“
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"My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible."
-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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"I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects."
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"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 science."
-Richard Powers
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"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."
-Richard Powers
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"Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously."
-Aaron Swartz
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"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
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"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
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"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space."
-Jack Schmitt
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