The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin; the publication of ‘Jane Eyre’ – add anything you like. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable. That’s not been my experience. I always want to try something new. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
