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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to

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

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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

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

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Science
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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

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design
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Working in Hollywood, its clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood! – Ziyi Zhang

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I dont know concretely if its due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game. – Stu Jackson

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know? – Stanley Clarke

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. – Richard Le Gallienne

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