Richard Powers Quotes

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

We don’t consider the roles that we’re taking in making the world the way it is.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

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.