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Ellen Ullman
“I’m an engineer for the same reason anyone is an engineer: a certain love for the intricate lives of things, a belief in a functional definition of reality. I do believe that the operational definition of a thing—how it works—is its most eloquent self-expression.”
Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Ellen Ullman
“Yet, when we allow complexity to be hidden and handled for us, we should at least notice what we are giving up. We risk becoming users of components, handlers of black boxes that do not open or don’t seem worth opening. We risk becoming people who cannot really fix things, who can only swap components, work with mechanisms we can use but do not understand in crucial ways. This not-knowing is fine while everything works as we expected. But when something breaks or goes wrong or needs fundamental change, what will we do except stand helpless in the face of our own creations”
Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Ellen Ullman
“Life is pressuring us to live by the robots’ pleasures, I thought. Our appetites have given way to theirs. Robots aren’t becoming us, I feared; we are becoming them.”
Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Alyssa Cole
“People focused so much on the prince slipping on Cinderella’s lost shoe that they didn’t realize the real happily ever after was the moment she realized she was brave enough to go to the damned ball alone in the first place. “I’m not waiting around for some fuckboy to bring me a shoe. I’m here, working for you. I’m finding my own shoe,”
Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default

Ellen Ullman
“Somehow, even if it means laws and rules and governments, we must find our way back to the technologists’ dream of the internet, the free exchanges among millions of equals; the following of links to links, unobserved, as we desire; the personal web pages we created, of our own designs, defeating the domination of Microsoft’s and Apple’s standard human interfaces. We must go back to that internet, even if it existed for only a flickering moment, or never existed except in idylls and nostalgia. We must route around the new bad corporate net; or create a superset of it; or an alternative. Or something.”
Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

109501 Pure Geekery Reads! — 41 members — last activity Jan 08, 2015 12:18PM
We have our Facebook group for general discussions of geekiness, but Facebook doesn't do super well for ongoing discussions like you have about book ...more
388582 Book Swap — 9 members — last activity Dec 27, 2017 07:12AM
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25x33 Nerd Appropriate — 14 members — last activity Mar 16, 2017 04:23AM
The group for all friends and family of the site NerdAppropriate.com. We are open to sharing thoughts on all books, but focus heavily on fantasy and s ...more
132574 Books & Brews Literature Book Club — 16 members — last activity Apr 16, 2014 08:15AM
This group meets at Books & Brews in Indianapolis off 96th street and 69 to discuss a literary classic one Monday a month. ...more
126334 The Infinite Ink Secret Lair: For YA/NA Spec Fic Lovers — 88 members — last activity May 01, 2019 11:12PM
This group is run by Infinite Ink, a collective of young adult and new adult speculative fiction authors. We’re passionate about reading and writing Y ...more
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