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 Read Quote
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. Richard Powers Read Quote
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible. Richard Powers Read Quote
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs. Richard Powers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. Richard Powers Read Quote
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. Richard Powers Read Quote
