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

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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. "

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" I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for. "

" 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 was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested. "

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

" A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity. "

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