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" Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "