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 More Quotes by Ellen Ullman More Quotes From Ellen Ullman To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. Ellen Ullman youfailureworkrelationship 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 i-amfeelanxietyfocus 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 newknowwaterknowledge With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. Ellen Ullman personalhardrememberattention So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values. Ellen Ullman solutionpoortechnologypeople I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for. Ellen Ullman feelbestyoufeelings 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 doorsayinggoodgirl It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding. Ellen Ullman doingchangeworkmen 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 myselfyoutimepeople Truly new inventions take time to play out. Ellen Ullman outnewplaytime I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old. Ellen Ullman smarthateworkpeople 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 computersknowprogresstechnology Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. Ellen Ullman faceangrydisciplineanger
