“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
Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. — Ellen Ullman Creators Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to… — Ellen Ullman Clarity Copy Share Image
“There is a purpose of life in the nerd world, which is treating reality as code, and optimizing it. Life becomes a… — Ellen Ullman Life Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for… — Ellen Ullman Change Copy Share Image
I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through… — Ellen Ullman Computers Copy Share Image
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is… — Ellen Ullman Code Copy Share Image
I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and… — Ellen Ullman Business 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
