“My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the tech...” — Richard Powers Quote

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

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

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.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.

Covid-19 is an invisible enemy that has forced us all to change our behaviour, professionally, personally and socially.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

There is an invisible moat around the senior royals.