Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Richard Powersis an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 June 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
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Early detection enables persons to benefit most from available medications that can help slow the progress of symptoms, and psychological and social interventions that can ease the journey for families. And it enables individuals to exercise self-determination related to future care, and legal and financial issues.
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The threat from the outside or corporations outside of government agencies, is increasing very dramatically each year.
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I think part of that is the taboo is being broken. To some extent it's no longer the kiss of death to admit to a security breach.
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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
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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.
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A common misconception among homeowners when it comes to home remodeling and renovation is that cost equals value. However, not every renovation or remodeling effort will pay off at closing.
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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.
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We're entering a whole new era now. America has suffered a terrorist attack of historic proportions, and now we're going to go after the perpetrators. Cyberattacks may be inevitable... Physical and cyberattacks in conjunction could cause panic across a whole economic sector.
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I think this is really an effort by Nortel to sort of sweep the decks (and) move forward.
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I think things will be back to normal very soon, ... Let's face it. The content that they put out is very good, very popular. I think people are just glad that they're back.