Quote by Richard Powers
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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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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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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

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