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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.
Ellen Ullman
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'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
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I like mysteries.
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Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into the light, we are our own persons.
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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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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.
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There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.
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You can only get a beginner's mind once.
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I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal.
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I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.
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I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for.
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I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good.
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