Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. — Ellen Ullman Algorithm Copy Share Image
With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the… — Ellen Ullman Attention Copy Share Image
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth. — Ellen Ullman Clock Copy Share Image
Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious. — Ellen Ullman Belief Copy Share Image
I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient. — Ellen Ullman Ancient Copy Share Image
Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know. — Ellen Ullman Biology Copy Share Image
All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind? — 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'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 Engineering 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 Disruption 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,'… — Ellen Ullman Computers Copy Share Image
Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to… — Ellen Ullman Code 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… — Ellen Ullman Motivation Copy Share Image
What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see… — Ellen Ullman Computers Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety… — Ellen Ullman Books Copy Share Image
I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take… — Ellen Ullman Programming 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 Computers Copy Share Image
“It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps… — Ellen Ullman Company 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 Family Copy Share Image
“I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Before the advent of the web, if you wanted to sustain a belief… — Ellen Ullman Extremism Copy Share Image
It's possible to let technology absorb what we know and then re-express it in intricate mechanisms - parts and circuit boards and… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“The therapist could not budge the patient from her syllogism. She replayed it throughout the hour, 'stuck in a single organization of… — Ellen Ullman Patience Copy Share Image
“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them.… — Ellen Ullman Debugging Copy Share Image
Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse — Ellen Ullman Engineering Copy Share Image
Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this… — Ellen Ullman Bravery Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer. — Ellen Ullman Government Copy Share Image
The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife. — Ellen Ullman Birth Copy Share Image
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