Vern Glaser

“The only good classification is a living classification.”
― Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

“Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause,”
― Sara G. Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“The ICU's life cycle for humans is as follows: a spurt of intense activity at birth; timeless adulthood, when one is afflicted with a range of woes that carry their own temporalities; and an inglorious, ill-defined end. The effect of this is, paradoxically, to make the individual an tin-defined, tabula rasa onto which various diseases are inscribed.”
― Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

“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