“We think we are creating the system, but the system is also creating us. We build the system, we live in its midst, and we are changed.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“We think we are creating the system for our own purposes. We believe we are making it in our own image. We call the microprocessor the “brain”; we say the machine has “memory.” But the computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic,…”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“One seems to become a myth, a fabulous creature that doesn't exist. One doesn't feel any different. It isn't that you get bigger to fit the world, the world gets smaller to fit you. You remain exactly the same.”— T. S. Eliot, poetryfoundation.org