Vern Glaser

“Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“But when a god             strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better.”
― Sophocles, Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

“Look well at this, and speak no towering word             yourself against the gods, nor walk too grandly             because your hand is weightier than another’s, 130      or your great wealth deeper founded. One short day             inclines the balance of all human things             to sink or rise again. Know that the gods             love men of steady sense and hate the wicked.”
― Sophocles, Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers