"I like to travel and connect."
-Richard Powers
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"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.“
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"My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible."
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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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"I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science."
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"I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
-Laurette Taylor
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-Lionel Stander
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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