Corinna Cortes (1961) computer scientist
At Women Techmakers Summit: NY - My Personal Story, and My Work at Google Research with Corinna Cortes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVIIib1OON4 6:13. Reflecting on her own educational background.
“About the accident itself I can say very little. Almost nothing. It involved something falling from the sky. Technology. Parts, bits. That's it, really: all I can divulge. Not much, I know.
It's not that I'm being shy. It's just that—well, for one, I don't even remember the event. It's a blank: a white slate, a black hole. I have vague images, half-impressions: of being, or having been—or, more precisely, being about to be—hit; blue light; railings; lights of other colours; being held above some kind of tray or bed. But who's to say my traumatized mind didn't just make them up, or pull them out from somewhere else, some other slot, and stick them there to plug the gap—the crater—that the accident had blown? Minds are versatile and wily things. Real chancers.”
— Tom McCarthy (writer), book Déjà vu
Source: Remainder (2005), Ch. 1.
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