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

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" The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. "

" 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 won't use Twitter. Twitter posts are thought-farts. I don't care about unconsidered thoughts of the moment. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin; the publication of 'Jane Eyre' - add anything you like. "

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

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

" Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into the light, we are our own persons. "

" 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. "

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

" 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. "

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

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

" So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values. "

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

" When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

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

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