Writer Quotes by Ellen Ullman

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

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

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

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

You can only get a beginner's mind once.

— Ellen Ullman

I'm a dark thoughts writer.

— Ellen Ullman

I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.

— Ellen Ullman

“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

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

Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators.

— Ellen Ullman

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

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

Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.

— Ellen Ullman

Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious.

— Ellen Ullman

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

— Ellen Ullman