"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."
-Richard Powers
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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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"I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects."
-Richard Powers
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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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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
-Marvin Davis
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"Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost."
-Bruce Paltrow
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"Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds."
-Bob Hayes
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"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."
-Philip Glass
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"I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel."
-Patrick Troughton
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
-Yvon Chouinard
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