I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and uncertain outcomes, keeps most from the task. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the ‘new’ ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It’s a feature, not a bug. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
The ability to ‘multitask,’ to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
