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" My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't consider myself a Jewish writer. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Writing is a very isolating occupation. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

" Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it. "

" 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. "