Richard Powers

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. ↗

— Richard Powers

#such

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism. ↗

— Richard Powers

#create #few #lines #organism #type

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

— Richard Powers

#everything #fit #i #into #owned

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

— Richard Powers

#making #roles #taking #way #world

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. ↗

— Richard Powers

#ever #grabs #live #others #racism

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

#determine #itself #never #should #technology

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bed #been #closest #doing #dream