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Ellen Ullman
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Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. Ellen Ullman
Art Design Programming Algorithm Craft Code
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
Freedom People Problem Liberty Thought Big Machines Critical Brother Feared About Individual Computer Individual Freedom Big Brother Metaphors Role Stopped Being Biggest Biggest Problem Lives
Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code. Ellen Ullman
Reading Run Revealing Code Watching Program
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. Ellen Ullman
Learning Women Smart Men Men And Women Long Gone Approach Out Would Would-Be Find Both Both Men And Women Never Without Were Self-Taught Did Being Co-Workers Who Helpful Profession Programmer
I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens. Ellen Ullman
Intimidated Like Boy Am Acting
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. Ellen Ullman
Reading Intimacy Machine Some Exist Experiences
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
Projection Rule Ourselves Clarity Logic Small Computer Small Part Part Like Devoted Very Order Us Really Portion
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ellen Ullman
Truth People Logical Nothing Programming Further Could Like Clock Fixing Process Imagine
It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again. Ellen Ullman
Me People Money Software Airplane Give Written Knew Sure Got How Occurred Get Bank Again Really Ever
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. Ellen Ullman
Work Relationship Failure You Will Become Carefully Intolerable Develop Make Around Error Getting Either Your Programmer
With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. Ellen Ullman
Remember Other Machine Given Computer Attention Printer Personal Room Hard Companion
I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for. Ellen Ullman
Best You Feelings Feel Villains
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. Ellen Ullman
Work Change Reward Will Men Inside Objective Well Halls Real Doing Them Asking Should Many Keep Coding Why
The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does. Ellen Ullman
Woman About Tend Concentrate Does Learns How Am Questions Often Asked Code Career
I'm pretty bad at crying. Ellen Ullman
Bad Pretty Crying
When I am around people I most admire, I tend to hug the wall. Ellen Ullman
People Hug Admire Tend Most Around Am Wall
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. Ellen Ullman
World Closed Software Ran System Only Computer Computers Computing Written Environments Operating Operating System Up Dominated Controlled Chips User Early
There is always one more bug to fix. Ellen Ullman
More Bug Always Fix
Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses. Ellen Ullman
You Before Mountains Live Furnished Out Compound Web Had Badly Advent Ideas Safe Another Houses Go Move Sustain Wanted Room Far-Fetched Series Belief Desert
I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Ellen Ullman
World Fear Internet Creating
The world of programmers is not going to change on its own. Ellen Ullman
Change World Own Going Programmers
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. Ellen Ullman
You Giving Giving Up Every Advance Over Know Look Falls Up Shoulder Your Away
Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. Ellen Ullman
Digital Values Software Devices Creators
I won't use Twitter. Twitter posts are thought-farts. I don't care about unconsidered thoughts of the moment. Ellen Ullman
Thoughts Care Twitter About Posts Use Moment
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. Ellen Ullman
Conversation Writing About Bounded Does Very Really Means Hard Express Code
I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient. Ellen Ullman
Think Ancient General Know How Storytelling Really Deeply Things
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