Richard Powers Quotes
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.
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Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.
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Replace judgment with curiosity.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
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Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless.
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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
