Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – Richard Powers
I think that if the novels 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
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers
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