Messiness Cannot Quotes by Ellen Ullman

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• We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
• Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're…
• But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
• The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.…
• 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…
• The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

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