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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.
Ellen Ullman
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I fear for the world the Internet is creating.
FearWorldInternetCreating
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.
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The world of programmers is not going to change on its own.
ChangeWorldOwnGoingProgrammers
When I hear the word 'disruption,' in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a living. We will sweep away all that money they were earning, and we will move that to the people at the top.
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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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I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere.
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It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.
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The brain is plastic, continuously changing its organization.
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Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators.
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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.
LifeKeep GoingExperiencePeople
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.
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