I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I used to pass by a large computer system with the feeling that it represented the summed-up knowledge of human beings. It… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only… — 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
