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

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" The brain is plastic, continuously changing its organization. "

" 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. "

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

" I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me. "

" 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. "

" I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old number are blocked. Why can't we do the same with Social Security numbers? "

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

" To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. "

" 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. "

" I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens. "

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

" 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. "

" No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer. "

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

" What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it. "

" Truly new inventions take time to play out. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system. "

" Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool. "

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

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

" With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away. "

" 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. "

" Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces. "

" 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. "