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" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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 like mysteries. "

" We don't have to live up to our computer. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Writing is a very isolating occupation. "

" Abhorring error is not necessarily positive. "

" When I hear the word 'disruption,' in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a living. We will sweep away all that money they were earning, and we will move that to the people at the top. "

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

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

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" Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious. "

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