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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. That's not been my experience. I always want to try something new. "

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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 from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom. "

Ellen Ullman

Thought

Big

Brother

" My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife. "

" 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. "

" I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens. "

Ellen Ullman

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Intimidated

" I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient. "

" It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever. "

" I like mysteries. "

Ellen Ullman

Mysteries

" It is deep in our nature to make tools. "

" What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it. "

" Writing is a very isolating occupation. "

" I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good. "

" With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away. "

" UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. "

" When I am around people I most admire, I tend to hug the wall. "

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

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

" The human mind, as it turns out, is messy. "

" Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. "

" The brain is plastic, continuously changing its organization. "

" If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it's not. "

" 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. "

" My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were - these are both men and women. And without learning from my co-workers, I never could've gone on in the profession as long as I did. "

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

" I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are problematic, giving and taking away. "

" I'm pretty bad at crying. "

" Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces. "

" After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well? "

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

" Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. "

" I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you. "