Richard Powers Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“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.”

“If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?”