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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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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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.
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It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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Al may still go back to Indy for a day or two. Right now, he's working out and strengthening his leg.
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
