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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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – 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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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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When were talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption. – John Sununu

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Microsoft isnt evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. – Linus Torvalds

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