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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, bu

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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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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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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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. – Niklaus Wirth

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