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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. "

Ellen Ullman

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Top

People

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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. "

" There is always one more bug to fix. "

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

" 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 act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. "

" We don't have to live up to our computer. "

Ellen Ullman

Our

Live

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

" Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in the recorded history of human life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Even simple fixes can bring the whole system down. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

Order

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

" With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it. "

" When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old number are blocked. Why can't we do the same with Social Security numbers? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old. "

" I'm a dark thoughts writer. "

" Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision. "