"What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.“

-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."

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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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"I like to travel and connect."

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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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"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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