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" There is always one more bug to fix. "
Ellen Ullman
Bug
Fix
Always
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" I fear for the world the Internet is creating. "
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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 relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization. "
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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. "
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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 on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces. "
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" People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. "
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" 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. "
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" I like mysteries. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm pretty bad at crying. "
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" Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool. "
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" It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding. "
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" 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 one in a boy-puerile atmosphere. "
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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 to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal. "
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" When I hear the word 'disruption,' in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a living. We will sweep away all that money they were earning, and we will move that to the people at the top. "
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Top
People
" Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it. "
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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 human thought and imagination? "
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" Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know. "
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Genetics
Want
Natural
" 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. "
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Giving
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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 the 21st century. "
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" I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens. "
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" Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug. "
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Our
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" Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code. "
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Code
" I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination. "
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" Abhorring error is not necessarily positive. "
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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 system. "
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" People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth. "
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" Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background. "
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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 else is kind of anxiety. "
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" Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious. "
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Almost
Technology