With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn’t express, not really. It’s a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That’s what’s hard about it. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
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. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn’t want to leave his wife. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
When I hear the word ‘disruption,’ in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a living. We will sweep away all that money they were earning, and we will move that to the people at the top. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you’re giving up – look over your shoulder and look at what falls away. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it’s entirely different to experiment on a living creature. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
