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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,' and the reception was not always a good one. "

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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 how many of the 'new' ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up. "

Ellen Ullman

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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 with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error. "

" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

" I don't consider myself a Jewish writer. "

" When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it. "

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

" Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster. "

" The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it. "

" A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity. "

Ellen Ullman

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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 being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into the light, we are our own persons. "

" The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century. "

" Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool. "

" The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does. "

" The world of programmers is not going to change on its own. "

" I won't use Twitter. Twitter posts are thought-farts. I don't care about unconsidered thoughts of the moment. "

" Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested. "

" Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system. "

" All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind? "

" So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values. "

" Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity gains that come from the simplifications of click-and-drag. "

" It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature. "

" I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for. "

" Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good. "

" People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth. "

" I'm a dark thoughts writer. "

" Writing is a very isolating occupation. "

" With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. "

" I fear for the world the Internet is creating. "

" No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer. "

" You can only get a beginner's mind once. "