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" 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. "

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" A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error. "

" There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. "

" It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again. "

" Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug. "

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

" The human mind, as it turns out, is messy. "

" It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding. "

" Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it. "

" 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. "

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

" Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background. "

" Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation. "

" I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.' "

" I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you. "

" Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable. That's not been my experience. I always want to try something new. "

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

" I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere. "

" I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command. "

" When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety. "

" 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'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism. "

" The computer's there to serve the human being, not vice versa. "

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

" People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. "

" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

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

" It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature. "

" The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it. "

" When I am around people I most admire, I tend to hug the wall. "

" All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind? "