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

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" I like mysteries. "

" I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old. "

" A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error. "

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

" Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Truly new inventions take time to play out. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Abhorring error is not necessarily positive. "

" 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. "

" What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the 'new' ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does. "

" Writing is a very isolating occupation. "

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

" Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster. "

" There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. "

" When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety. "