Nicole Zeckner

“I realized my easy scorn had betrayed an ignorance I did not want to live with. The epiphany was ethical, but it led to musical enjoyment.”
― Carl Wilson, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

“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

“Code and forget, code and forget: programming as a collective exercise in incremental forgetting.”
― Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

“She knew what bad men looked like. They raped their wives. Or beat them. Or their children. That was how you knew them for what they were. Marco was never that. He never hit her, never forced himself on her, never threatened to shoot her or throw her out an airlock or pour acid in her eyes. He’d pretended kindness so well she would doubt herself, make herself wonder if she was the one being unreasonable, irrational, all the things he implied she was.
He never did anything that would have made it easy for her.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games