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# Ellen Ullman

(1949)   Programmer   United States

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Ellen Ullman is a programmer from the United States, best known for *By blood*.

## Quick Facts About Ellen Ullman

Born June 13, 1949

Nationality United States

Profession Programmer

Notable works By blood

## About Ellen Ullman

She has written books, articles, and essays that explore how people experience and think about computer programming.

##  Quotes by Ellen Ullman · Page 3

> [“I've managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-ve-managed-to-stay-in-a-perpetual-state-of-learning-only-by/)

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> [My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/my-mother-told-me-that-my-birth-mother-got-pregnant-by-a-married-man/)

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> [The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/the-questions-i-am-often-asked-about-my-career-tend-to-concentrate/)

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> [There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/there-s-some-intimacy-in-reading-some-thoughtfulness-that-doesn-t/)

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> [The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/the-act-of-voting-to-put-it-in-computing-terms-is-a-question-of-user/)

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> [“Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/do-i-have-to-recite-any-further-risks-you-have-taken-how-much-you/)

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[Bravery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bravery/)

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> [No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/no-one-in-the-government-is-seriously-penalized-when-social-security/)

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[Government](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/government/)

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> [Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/our-constitution-is-designed-to-change-very-slowly-it-s-a-feature-not/)

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> [The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/the-ability-to-multitask-to-switch-rapidly-among-many-competing/)

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[Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/)

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> [The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/the-biggest-problem-is-that-people-have-stopped-being-critical-about/)

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> [“But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/but-now-what-is-this-a-ticket-to-a-new-understanding-of-my-life-or-a/)

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[Learning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/learning/)

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> [I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-think-technical-people-now-should-learn-literature-because/)

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> [What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/what-happens-to-people-like-myself-who-have-been-involved-with/)

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> [“I believed my motivations were clear: to help the patient see the pattern that had been imposed upon her, this endless repetition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-believed-my-motivations-were-clear-to-help-the-patient-see-the/)

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> [I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-don-t-know-where-anyone-ever-got-the-idea-that-technology-in-and-of/)

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> [Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/reading-code-is-like-reading-all-things-written-you-have-to-scribble/)

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> [People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/people-talk-about-computer-programmers-as-if-computers-are-our-whole/)

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> [Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/staring-prejudice-in-the-face-imposes-a-cruel-discipline-to-structure/)

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> [Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/some-people-hit-a-profession-and-just-keep-going-deeper-into-it/)

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> [Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/productivity-has-always-been-the-justification-for-the-prepackaging/)

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> [I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-think-that-focusing-all-experiences-through-the-lens-of-the/)

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> [I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-think-many-people-have-wonderful-stories-inside-them-and-the-talent/)

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[Isolation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/isolation/)

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> [Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/before-the-advent-of-the-web-if-you-wanted-to-sustain-a-belief-in-far/)

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> [I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-don-t-like-the-idea-that-facebook-controls-how-people-express/)

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> [Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/multitasking-throughput-efficiency-these-are-excellent-machine/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/the-web-is-just-another-stunning-point-in-the-two-hundred-thousand/)

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> [Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/introduced-in-the-1960s-multitasking-is-an-engineering-strategy-for/)

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> [A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/a-computer-is-a-general-purpose-machine-with-which-we-engage-to-do/)

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> [To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/to-be-a-programmer-is-to-develop-a-carefully-managed-relationship/)

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> [When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/when-you-lose-your-visa-card-you-get-a-new-card-with-a-new-number-and/)

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[Lose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lose/)

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> [My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/my-approach-to-being-a-self-taught-programmer-was-to-find-out-who-was/)

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> [Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/each-new-tool-we-create-ends-an-old-relationship-with-the-world-and/)

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> [It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/it-had-to-happen-to-me-sometime-sooner-or-later-i-would-have-to-lose/)

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> [When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/when-i-am-writing-and-occasionally-achieve-single-focus-and-presence/)

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> [I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, 'No girls allowed,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/i-was-a-girl-who-came-into-the-clubhouse-into-the-treehouse-with-the/)

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> [Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/through-the-miracle-of-natural-genetic-recombination-each-child-with/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/has-google-appropriated-the-word-search-if-so-i-find-it-sad-search-is/)

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[Deep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deep/)

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> [Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/closed-environments-dominated-the-computing-world-of-the-1970s-and/)

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[1970s](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1970s-440/)

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> [Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/evolution-dismissed-as-a-sloppy-programmer-has-seen-fit-to-create-us/)

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[Biology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/)

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## Ellen Ullman by topic

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