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" Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know. "

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" I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient. "

" Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information. "

" Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies. "

" Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code. "

" It is deep in our nature to make tools. "

" I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, 'No girls allowed,' and the reception was not always a good one. "

" Writing is a very isolating occupation. "

" A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity. "

" Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy. "

" Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity gains that come from the simplifications of click-and-drag. "

" Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses. "

" With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. "

" Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. "

" I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old. "

" UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. "

" The world of programmers is not going to change on its own. "

" My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were - these are both men and women. And without learning from my co-workers, I never could've gone on in the profession as long as I did. "

" After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well? "

" It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever. "

" I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and uncertain outcomes, keeps most from the task. "

" Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in the recorded history of human life. "

" The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century. "

" I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good. "

" People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth. "

" I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for. "

" Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good. "

" I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are problematic, giving and taking away. "

" Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster. "

" I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination. "

" You can only get a beginner's mind once. "