Sadie Plant > Quotes

“When computers were vast systems of transistors and valves which needed to be coaxed into action, it was women who turned them on. When computers became the miniaturized circuits of silicon chips, it was women who assembled them . . . when computers were virtually real machines, women wrote the software on which they ran. And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.”
― Sadie Plant

“Like father, like sperm, like chromosome: Is the male line really running the show, with women, eggs, and X chromosomes passively waiting for their counterparts to turn them on or off as required?”
― Sadie Plant, Zeros and Ones