Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When I hear the word 'disruption,' in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“There is a purpose of life in the nerd world, which is treating reality as code, and optimizing it. Life becomes a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as… — 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
