I don’t like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I’m supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, ‘No girls allowed,’ and the reception was not always a good one. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
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.’ Ellen Ullman Read Quote
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
