The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin;… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“I believed my motivations were clear: to help the patient see the pattern that had been imposed upon her, this endless repetition of being… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
