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Ellen Ullman
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About Computer People Think World You
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The computer's there to serve the human being, not vice versa. Ellen Ullman
Human Being Vice Versa Computer Versa Human Being Vice Serve
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. Ellen Ullman
People Our About Computer Computers Simply True Talk Whole Lives Programmers
Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy. Ellen Ullman
Relationship Car Rich Our Complex Computer Like Messy Much Socially
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies. Ellen Ullman
Life History Insects Seen Before Wild Our Everything Earth Evolution Sloppy Except Within Came Fit Us Create Bodies Dismissed Realm Whole Programmer
Abhorring error is not necessarily positive. Ellen Ullman
Positive Error Necessarily
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. Ellen Ullman
Great Mind Great Deal Thinking Corners Despite Background Machine See Small Computer Attempts Contain Over Leap Deal Foreground Misunderstandings Brain Human Ifs Skip Buts
The human mind, as it turns out, is messy. Ellen Ullman
Mind Out Messy Human Turns Human Mind
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. Ellen Ullman
Me Knowledge Fears Edge Fall Lose Every Think Later Sight Would No Reason Sometime Could Had Sooner Sooner Or Later Obsolescence Exhaustion Escape Forever Person Happen Cutting Cutting Edge Reason Moment Technical
I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command. Ellen Ullman
You Age Yourself Single Pleasure System Out Could Learned Came Command Where Technical Right UNIX
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? Ellen Ullman
Nurture Thought Design Imagination Machine Systems Excellent Computer Concepts Principles Efficiency Human Useful Multitasking Human Thought
Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we'll go ahead and do it anyway. Ellen Ullman
Privacy Voting Problems Internet Will Made Though Secure Online Remain Unsolvable Voter Surely Coming Go Ballots Suspect Cannot Anyway
The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. Ellen Ullman
Voting Computing Put Terms Question Interface Act User
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. Ellen Ullman
People Depend Everyone Complex Systems Tendency Toward Disaster Occasional Dealing Nasty Been Years Muddled Showing Technical
Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious. Ellen Ullman
Technology Digital Digital Technology Has-Been Religious Almost Been Belief Challenged
Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information. Ellen Ullman
Work Will Programs Systems About Could Computer Exchange Without How Information Standards Agreement Among
Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good. Ellen Ullman
Good Technology Once Backward Out Run Does Capability Technical
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person. Ellen Ullman
Life My Life Adopted Mysterious Course Said Am Times Person Sentence Many Origins
I like mysteries. Ellen Ullman
Mysteries Like
Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug. Ellen Ullman
Change Constitution Our Slowly Feature Bug Very Designed
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination. Ellen Ullman
Great You People Great Deal Think Imagination About Variety Learn Because Deal How Human Literature Depths Human Imagination Should Teaches Now Technical
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. Ellen Ullman
Time History You Eyes World Internet Example Think Others Once Focusing See Able About Through Enamored Being Experiences Cannot Lens Present Present Time
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