Ellen Ullman

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,'…

— 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…

— Ellen Ullman

It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment…

— 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…

— Ellen Ullman

Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique…

— 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

All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind?

— Ellen Ullman

“Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this…

— Ellen Ullman

Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:…

— Ellen Ullman

The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.

— Ellen Ullman

It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to…

— Ellen Ullman

Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture…

— Ellen Ullman

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from…

— Ellen Ullman

The brain is plastic, continuously changing its organization.

— Ellen Ullman

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

— Ellen Ullman

“IV. Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real techie in the cafeteria of a software company.…

— Ellen Ullman