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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have to live up to our computer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is deep in our nature to make tools.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me.
- Necessarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abhorring error is not necessarily positive.
- Foreground
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.
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- Nov 07, 2020