Ellen Ullman Quotes

Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has written several books, including "Close to the Machine," which provides insights into the world of programming and technology. Her writing often explores the human aspects of the tech industry.

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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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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A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

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Programming is the art of algorithm design and the... -Ellen Ullman

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

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The quote describes programming as a combination of two distinct aspects: the art of designing algorithms and the skillful practice of identifying and correcting errors in code. It suggests that programming involves both creative problem-solving and meticulous attention to detail.

I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'

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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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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 compu... -Ellen Ullman

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

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