Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engine... -Ellen Ullman

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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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.

Ellen Ullman Quotes to Explore

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code....
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 ...
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a syste...
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true....
Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on ...
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 problema...
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 ab...
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 t...
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity....

Computers Quotes to Explore

Instruments are just planks of wood, or just computers or whatever, but they help us translate the most difficult aspects of life and make the convers...
One aspect of the male that women find hard to understand is his obsession with electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, tiddly televisions, computer...
Computers are dangerous....
My dad, Chris, is from St Kitts. He worked in computers. I remember the first laptop when he brought it home. People from primary school came to check...
I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader....
You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your...
It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing....
I love computers. I think it's a miracle that you can type 'coffee stain' into a search engine and get a page of answers, but I don't like the vicious...
I actually did not touch any type of computer until I came to America. I knew computers existed, yes, but I didn't have access to them. In the Philipp...
Environmental advocates say that changing how much power computers and monitors use in idle mode can cut greenhouse gas emissions without requiring co...