Author: Ellen Ullman

Quotes

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

- Ellen Ullman

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.

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

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

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

- Ellen Ullman

Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information.

Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information.

- Ellen Ullman

I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere.

I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere.

- Ellen Ullman

Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.

Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.

- Ellen Ullman

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

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

- Ellen Ullman

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

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

- Ellen Ullman

All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind?

All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind?

- Ellen Ullman

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