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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You can only get a beginner's mind once. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding. "

" It's possible to let technology absorb what we know and then re-express it in intricate mechanisms - parts and circuit boards and software objects - mechanisms we can use but do not understand in crucial ways. This not-knowing is fine while everything works as we expected. "

" Abhorring error is not necessarily positive. "

" After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well? "

" I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It is deep in our nature to make tools. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "