Richard Powers Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ... mass cascades of error-correcting bits surged in waves of electromagnetic radiation around the planet's surface. They blasted in vertical geysers 35.786 km upward into space and rained back down at 300 million meters per second. They coursed in bundles of parallel light through fiber conduits only to fan out in bursts of radio across the open air at the whim of tens of millions of grazing fingers coaxing electrons from hundreds of millions of spots on capacitive touch screens a few inches high. Bewilderment

2. But people have no idea what time is. They think it's a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can't see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died. The Overstory

3. The game seems childish, at first. But all of art is childish, all storytelling, all human hope and fear. The Overstory

4. You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at. The Overstory