"I like to travel and connect."
-Richard Powers
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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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"My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible."
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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 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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"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."
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