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Richard Powers quotes: Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

Richard Powers quotes: Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Richard Powers quotes: I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers quotes: I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Richard Powers quotes: Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Richard Powers quotes: Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Richard Powers quotes: I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Richard Powers quotes: Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.

Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.

Richard Powers quotes: And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

Richard Powers quotes: The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Richard Powers quotes: My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Richard Powers quotes: There's joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be had from hearing the darkest tune and discovering you're equal to it.

There's joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be had from hearing the darkest tune and discovering you're equal to it.

Richard Powers quotes: If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year.

If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year.

Richard Powers quotes: I like to travel and connect.

I like to travel and connect.

Richard Powers quotes: The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

Richard Powers quotes: Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.

Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.

Richard Powers quotes: All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Richard Powers quotes: Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.

Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.

Richard Powers quotes: Love is the feedback cycle of longing, belonging, loss.

Love is the feedback cycle of longing, belonging, loss.

Richard Powers quotes: 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.

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.

Richard Powers quotes: All my life I thought I knew what music was. But I was like a kid who confuses his grandfather with God. A

All my life I thought I knew what music was. But I was like a kid who confuses his grandfather with God. A

Richard Powers quotes: All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space

All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space

Richard Powers quotes: How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.

How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.

Richard Powers quotes: The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

Richard Powers quotes: He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

Richard Powers quotes: I wasn't the genre I'd thought I was.

I wasn't the genre I'd thought I was.

Richard Powers quotes: The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire.

Richard Powers quotes: All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Richard Powers quotes: Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be?

Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be?

Richard Powers quotes: I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Richard Powers quotes: Yet this rumble is cartoon thunder.

Yet this rumble is cartoon thunder.

Richard Powers quotes: Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

Richard Powers quotes: Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Richard Powers quotes: She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

Richard Powers quotes: Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Richard Powers quotes: The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

Richard Powers quotes: My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Richard Powers quotes: I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.

I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.

Richard Powers quotes: In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Powers quotes: But memory will forever replay this day in black and white, the slow voice-over pan of Movietone

But memory will forever replay this day in black and white, the slow voice-over pan of Movietone

Richard Powers quotes: What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

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 quotes: Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.

Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.

Richard Powers quotes: Time didn't age you; memory did.

Time didn't age you; memory did.

Richard Powers quotes: The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

Richard Powers quotes: When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Richard Powers quotes: I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Richard Powers quotes: Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici.I do no harm by remaining here.

Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici.
I do no harm by remaining here.

Richard Powers quotes: 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.

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 quotes: We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

Richard Powers quotes: The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Richard Powers quotes: Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise.

Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise.

Richard Powers quotes: Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Richard Powers quotes: Everything interests me.

Everything interests me.

Richard Powers quotes: What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?

What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?

Richard Powers quotes: Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Richard Powers quotes: We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Richard Powers quotes: Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.

Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.

Richard Powers quotes: There is no safety. There is only forgetfulness.

There is no safety. There is only forgetfulness.

Richard Powers quotes: The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Richard Powers quotes: Do you run away or toward?

Do you run away or toward?

Richard Powers quotes: I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

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 quotes: Zag when they think you'll zig.

Zag when they think you'll zig.

Richard Powers quotes: The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Richard Powers quotes: I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Richard Powers quotes: For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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 quotes: Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Richard Powers quotes: Maybe the key to acclaim is simply to live long enough.But then, maybe acclaim is the foyer to death.

Maybe the key to acclaim is simply to live long enough.
But then, maybe acclaim is the foyer to death.

Richard Powers quotes: Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

Richard Powers quotes: Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.

Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.

Richard Powers quotes: Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

Richard Powers quotes: Insecurity will always be a growth industry. The economy now depends on fear.

Insecurity will always be a growth industry. The economy now depends on fear.

Richard Powers quotes: Life is nothing but mutual infection.

Life is nothing but mutual infection.

Richard Powers quotes: Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Richard Powers quotes: It seemed to me that half of life's problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.

It seemed to me that half of life's problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.

Richard Powers quotes: It was like so, but wasn't.

It was like so, but wasn't.

Richard Powers quotes: Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Richard Powers quotes: What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Richard Powers quotes: Creation is much in need of ordering.

Creation is much in need of ordering.

Richard Powers quotes: The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation.

The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation.

Richard Powers quotes: Art is not a mobocracy. It's a republic.

Art is not a mobocracy. It's a republic.

Richard Powers quotes: zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten.

zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten.

Richard Powers quotes: Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.