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
Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade… — Ellen Ullman Hope 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 won't use Twitter. Twitter posts are thought-farts. I don't care about unconsidered thoughts of the moment. — Ellen Ullman Care 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
Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain… — 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 Disruption 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
Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the… — Ellen Ullman Brain Copy Share Image
When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We… — Ellen Ullman Code Copy Share Image
With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and… — Ellen Ullman Giving Copy Share Image
Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on,… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. — Ellen Ullman Algorithm Copy Share Image
Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information. — Ellen Ullman Computer systems Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Inspirational Copy Share Image
After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as… — Ellen Ullman Credit Copy Share Image
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman Cities Copy Share Image
The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it. — Ellen Ullman Business Copy Share Image
Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. — Ellen Ullman Creators 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 Art Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism. — Ellen Ullman Hope Copy Share Image
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