“I've managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant… — Ellen Ullman Education 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
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
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. — Ellen Ullman Computers Copy Share Image
The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. — 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
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
Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of… — Ellen Ullman Ability Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up… — Ellen Ullman Learning 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
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 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
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
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. — Ellen Ullman Computer Copy Share Image
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. — Ellen Ullman Anger Copy Share Image
Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable.… — Ellen Ullman Career Copy Share Image
Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity… — 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 Eyes Copy Share Image
I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its… — Ellen Ullman Isolation Copy Share Image
Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into… — Ellen Ullman Belief Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture… — Ellen Ullman Computers 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… — Ellen Ullman Discovery Copy Share Image
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a… — Ellen Ullman Computers Copy Share Image
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings… — Ellen Ullman Assumptions Copy Share Image
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were… — Ellen Ullman Learning 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
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment… — Ellen Ullman Cutting edge 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… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, 'No girls allowed,'… — 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… — Ellen Ullman Children Copy Share Image
Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in… — 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
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:… — Ellen Ullman Biology Copy Share Image
