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The Echo Maker QUOTES

The Echo Maker QUOTES

1 " On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

2 " Time didn't age you; memory did. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

3 " The blessing of endless information: the Internet, democratizing even health care. Suppose we gave all pharmaceuticals an Amazon rating. The wisdom of crowds. Do away with experts altogether. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

4 " Her supervisor explained that the Family Medical Leave Act did not extend to siblings. A brother, in the eyes of the medical-leave law, was not family. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

5 " The day would come when the last clean cause and effect would disappear into thickets of tangled networks. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

6 " But what did psychological mean anymore, except a process that did not yet have a known neurobiological substrate? "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

7 " pronounced. Spontaneous improvement no longer seemed likely. Behavioral therapy had "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

8 " Nothing anyone can do for anyone, except to recall: We are every second being born. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

9 " She tried to grin, grateful. Of course: fund raising. The core of every job description in the nation, from schoolchildren on up to the president. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

10 " Public judgment is nothing but shared schizophrenia "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

11 " The whole race suffered from Capgras. those birds danced like our next of kin, called and parented and taught and navigated all just like our blood relations. Half their parts were still ours. Yet humans waved them off: Imposters. at most, a strange spectacle to gaze at from a blind. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

12 " (Memory) A few dozen cells, slung together in a lowly slug: already an infinitely reshaping machine, halfway to knowing. Matter that shaped other matter, a plastic record of light and sound, place and motion, change and resistance. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

13 " (Culture) Some part of us could model some other modeler. and out of that simple loop came all the love and culture, the ridiculous overflow of gifts. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

14 " (Extinction) Twelve million or more species, less than a tenth of them counted. And half of them will snuff out in her lifetime. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

15 " A woman of her skills! Just because she fucked up, does she think the world can't use her? we're down to gallons here. Hours and ounces. And she's going to roll over and die? "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

16 " He is surrounded. Even the sealed cabin around him has grown septic with life. Everything is animate, green and encroaching. Dozens of millions of species seethe around him, few of them visible, even fewer named, ready to try anything once, every possible cheat and exploitation, just to keep being. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

17 " Tecumseh tried to unite the scattered nations under the banner of Crane Power, but the Hopi mark for the crane's foot became the world's peace symbol. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

18 " The turtledove, swallow and crane keep the time of their coming, says Jeremiah. only people fail to recall the order of the Lord. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

19 " We're living in the age of mass hypnotism. As long as we keep clapping our hands and believing, the captains of industry will take care of us. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker

20 " Creatures, all of whome heard humans and knew them as just a part of the wider network of sounds. Living things of every gauge, for whom the roadside bar was just another mound in the continuous test of the landscape, just another swarming node in the biome to exploit. "

― Richard Powers , The Echo Maker