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